Bounds on the nonminimal coupling of the Higgs Boson to gravity

Calmet, Xavier and Atkins, Michael (2013) Bounds on the nonminimal coupling of the Higgs Boson to gravity. Physical Review Letters, 110 (051301). ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We derive the first bound on the value of the Higgs boson nonminimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. We show that the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN implies that the nonminimal coupling is smaller than 2.6×10^15.

Item Type: Article
Schools and Departments: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User: Xavier Calmet
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2013 09:21
Last Modified: 08 Mar 2017 23:11
URI: http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43647

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