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arXiv:1606.04018 (hep-ph)
[Submitted on 13 Jun 2016 (v1), last revised 12 Sep 2016 (this version, v3)]

Title:Black holes and Higgs stability

Authors:Nikolaos Tetradis
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Abstract:We study the effect of primordial black holes on the classical rate of nucleation of AdS regions within the standard electroweak vacuum. We find that the energy barrier for transitions to the new vacuum, which characterizes the exponential suppression of the nucleation rate, can be reduced significantly in the black-hole background. A precise analysis is required in order to determine whether the the existence of primordial black holes is compatible with the form of the Higgs potential at high temperature or density in the Standard Model or its extensions.
Comments: 27 pages, 10 figures, conclusions expanded, to appear in JCAP
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Cite as: arXiv:1606.04018 [hep-ph]
  (or arXiv:1606.04018v3 [hep-ph] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1606.04018
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/036

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From: Nikolaos Tetradis [view email]
[v1] Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:17:38 UTC (3,782 KB)
[v2] Wed, 6 Jul 2016 18:11:12 UTC (3,783 KB)
[v3] Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:37:33 UTC (3,784 KB)
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