Dark energy as a remnant of inflation and electroweak symmetry breaking

Dimopoulos, Konstantinos and Markkanen, Tommi (2019) Dark energy as a remnant of inflation and electroweak symmetry breaking. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019: 29. ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

It is shown that dark energy can be obtained from the interplay of the Higgs boson and the inflaton. A key element is the realization that electroweak symmetry breaking can trigger a second phase of rolling of the inflaton, which, when provided with the appropriate couplings between the fields, can be sufficiently slow to source accelerated expansion in the late time Universe. The observed dark energy density is obtained without fine-tuning of parameters or initial conditions due to an intricate conspiracy of numbers related to inflation, gravity and electroweak physics.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
Subjects:
?? cosmic inflationelectroweak phase-transitiondark energyphysics and astronomy(all)nuclear and high energy physics ??
ID Code:
130473
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Deposited On:
16 Jan 2019 15:45
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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31 Dec 2023 01:02