The many faces of Higgs inflation

by Dr Cristiano Germani (LMU)

Thursday 12 Dec 2013, 11:15 → 12:15 Europe/Berlin

313 (MPI fuer Physik)

I will give a personal perspective of how to make the standard model Higgs boson a viable inflaton candidate. I will then briefly discuss possible related consequences for axionic Dark Matter and electroweak vacuum stability.