PIRSA:22010093

Higgs inflation, unitarity, and emergence of scalaron

Ema, Y. (2022). Higgs inflation, unitarity, and emergence of scalaron. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/22010093

Ema, Yohei. Higgs inflation, unitarity, and emergence of scalaron. Perimeter Institute, Jan. 25, 2022, https://pirsa.org/22010093 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:22010093,
            doi = {10.48660/22010093},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/22010093},
            author = {Ema, Yohei},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Higgs inflation, unitarity, and emergence of scalaron},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2022},
            month = {jan},
            note = {PIRSA:22010093 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Yohei Ema University of Minnesota

DOI 10.48660/22010093
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Higgs inflation introduces a large non-minimal coupling between the Ricci scalar and Higgs that makes the cut-off scale well below the Planck scale. In the first part of the talk, we show that unitarity is indeed violated by a resonant production of longitudinal gauge bosons after inflation, calling for UV completion of Higgs inflation. We then show that unitarity is restored after summing over vacuum polarization-type diagrams that are leading-order in the large-N limit. Scattering amplitude develops a pole after the resummation, which we identify as the scalar component of the metric, or the scalaron. This phenomenon can be understood in the language of the non-linear sigma model (NLSM), with the scalaron identified as the sigma-meson that linearizes the NLSM.

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