2–6 Dec 2019
Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Ruth Gregory: Primordial Black Holes and Higgs Vacuum Decay

3 Dec 2019, 10:00
45m
Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan)

Lecture Hall

Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan

Kashiwa, Japan

Description

The recent discovery of the Higgs and its mass suggests that our vacuum may by metastable. I will review how we calculate the probability of vacuum decay and discuss how black holes alter this rate. This leads to a constraint either on primordial black hole formation or the Higgs potential.

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