Particle and Astroparticle Physics Colloquium Hamburg

Forum on (Meta-)Stability of the Electroweak Vacuum

by Alexander Westphal (DESY), Bernd Kniehl (Univ. of Hamburg), Sven-Olaf Moch (Univ. of Hamburg)

Europe/Berlin
Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Description
We give an exhaustive review about the question of (meta-)stability of the vacuum in the Standard Model in the light of the Higgs discovery and its possible implications for physics beyond the Standard Model. B. Kniehl: Vacuum stability in the Standard Model at two loops S.-O. Moch: How the top-quark mass affects electro-weak vacuum stability A. Westphal: Inflationary ramifications of a meta-stable Higgs vacuum