The Higgs boson and cosmology

Shaposhnikov, Mikhail

doi:10.1098/rsta.2014.0038

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The Higgs boson and cosmology

Shaposhnikov, Mikhail Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

2015-1-13

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. - The Royal Society. - 2015, vol. 373, no. 2032, p. 20140038

English I will discuss how the Higgs field of the Standard Model may have played an important role in cosmology, leading to the homogeneity, isotropy and flatness of the Universe; producing the quantum fluctuations that seed structure formation; triggering the radiation-dominated era of the hot Big Bang; and contributing to the processes of baryogenesis and dark matter production.

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