Playing with the wooden part of Einstein equations: Higgs inflations

by Cristiano Germani (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona)

Tuesday 14 Mar 2017, 13:15 → 14:30 Europe/Stockholm

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While low-energy gravity in vacuum is extremely constrained to be the Einstein theory, the same is not true when gravity-matter interactions are considered. Allowing violations of the equivalence principle lead to a number of interesting new avenues to explain inflation and dark matter. In this review I will especially focus on the minimal scenario where one identifies the Higgs boson as the inflaton and primordial black holes as dark matter.