Higgs inflation in a singlet extension of the standard model
SPEAKER
Hiroyuki Ishida, Shimane University
PLACE
Room 345, 4 go-kan 3F
Inflation is the most plausible mechanism to resolve several cosmological problems in the early universe. Higgs inflation is clearly the most economical possibility. The original Higgs inflation, however, requires quite a huge coupling between the Higgs field and the gravity, named the non-minimal coupling. We propose a model with a right-handed neutrino and a Z_2 odd real scalar field, which can account for tiny neutrino masses and the dark matter. We show that our model gives the non-minimal coupling of around 10, consistent with the recent Planck observation. Furthermore, we show that the masses of the right-handed neutrino and the dark matter are not seriously constrained by the observed value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio.