Isabella Masina, Alessio Notari
For a narrow band of values of the top quark and Higgs boson masses, the
Standard Model Higgs potential develops a false minimum at energies of about
$10^{16}$ GeV, where primordial Inflation could have happened. A graceful exit
to a radiation dominated era is provided e.g. by scalar-tensor gravity models.
We pointed out that if Inflation happened in this false minimum, the Higgs
boson mass has to be in the range $126.0 \pm 3.5$ GeV, where ATLAS and CMS
subsequently reported excesses of events. Here we show that for these values of
the Higgs mass, the inflationary gravitational wave background has be
discovered with a tensor-to-scalar ratio at hand of future experiments. We
suggest that combining cosmological observations with measurements of the top
and Higgs masses represents a further test of the hypothesis that the Standard
Model false minimum was the source of Inflation in the Universe.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5430
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