初期宇宙・相対論速報

Seminar on Early Universe and Gravitation

Time: Monday 13:00-15:00
Location: 1st floor at the 4th bldg. of science faculty

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2021/3/8 (月)

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Higgs Inflation, Unitarity, and Emergence of Scalaron †

Yohei Ema †

Higgs inflation introduces a large non-minimal coupling between the Ricci scalar and Higgs that causes tree-level unitarity violation well below the Planck scale. After reviewing the unitarity issue during and after inflation, we show that the unitarity can be restored by summing over vacuum polarization-type diagrams that are leading-order in the large-N limit. The scattering amplitude develops a pole after the resummation, which we identify as the scalar component of the metric, or the scalaron. We show that this phenomenon can be understood in the language of the non-linear sigma model (NLSM), with the scalaron identified as the sigma-meson that linearizes the NLSM.