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Elsevier, Physics Letters B, 3(659), p. 703-706, 2008

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.072

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The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

Journal article published in 2007 by Fedor Bezrukov ORCID, Mikhail Shaposhnikov
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Abstract

We argue that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model can lead to inflation and produce cosmological perturbations in accordance with observations. An essential requirement is the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs scalar field to gravity; no new particle besides already present in the electroweak theory is required.