Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: We propose a realization of cosmic inflation with the Higgs field when the Higgs potential has degenerate vacua by employing the recently proposed idea of hill-climbing inflation. The resultant inflationary predictions exhibit a sizable deviation from those of the ordinary Higgs inflation.
Authors: Ryusuke Jinno, Kunio Kaneta, Kin-ya Oda
Institutions: Institute for Basic Science, The University of Osaka
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2614045645