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Large density perturbations from reheating to standard model particles due to the dynamics of the Higgs boson during inflation

Large density perturbations from reheating to standard model particles due to the dynamics of the Higgs boson during inflation

Cosmic microwave background observations are used to constrain reheating to standard model (SM) particles after a period of inflation. As a light spectator field, the SM Higgs boson acquires large field values from its quantum fluctuations during inflation, gives masses to SM particles that vary from one Hubble patch to …