AUTHOR=Rubio Javier TITLE=Higgs Inflation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences VOLUME=5 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2018.00050 DOI=10.3389/fspas.2018.00050 ISSN=2296-987X ABSTRACT=

The properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson together with the absence of new physics at collider experiments allows us to speculate about consistently extending the Standard Model of particle physics all the way up to the Planck scale. In this context, the Standard Model Higgs non-minimally coupled to gravity could be responsible for the symmetry properties of the Universe at large scales and for the generation of the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations seeding structure formation. We overview the minimalistic Higgs inflation scenario, its predictions, open issues and extensions and discuss its interplay with the possible metastability of the Standard Model vacuum.