Decay of the standard model Higgs field after inflation
Decay of the standard model Higgs field after inflation
We study the nonperturbative dynamics of the standard model (SM) after inflation, in the regime where the SM is decoupled from (or weakly coupled to) the inflationary sector. We use classical lattice simulations in an expanding box in ($3+1$) dimensions, modeling the SM gauge interactions with both global and Abelian-Higgs …