Higgs boson cosmology

Authors :: Ian G. Moss
Source :: Contemporary Physics. 56:468-476
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2015.
Abstract: The discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson opens up a range of speculative cosmological scenarios, from the formation of structure in the early universe immediately after the big bang, to relics from the electroweak phase transition one nanosecond after the big bang, on to the end of the present-day universe through vacuum decay. Higgs physics is wide-ranging, and gives an impetus to go beyond the Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology to explore the physics of ultra-high energies and quantum gravity.<br />Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures