Name: Christian Steinwachs
 Institution: Institute for Theoretical Physics
 Title: The Higgs Field as an Inflaton
 Key Words: Inflation, Higgs Boson, Standard Model, Renormalisation group
 Abstract: It is shown that the Higgs boson can also serve as an inflaton in
the early Universe if one assumes its strong non-minimal coupling
to gravity and takes quantum corrections from Standard Model
particles to the tree action into account. This builds a bridge
between modern cosmology and particle physics without introducing
any new particles. We predict the range for allowed values of the
Higgs mass in this scenario which can be tested at LHC.
Ref.: JCAP 12 (2009) 003 [arXiv:0904.1698]