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© Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This talk reviews our recent work showing how tiny black holes can act as nucleation sites for the decay of the metastable Higgs vacuum [1, 2, 3, 4]. We start by discussing the formation of thin wall bubbles of true vacuum inside a false vacuum, and show how adding a black hole lowers the action of the Euclidean tunneling solution, thus strongly enhancing the probability of vacuum decay. We then review numerical results for the Higgs vacuum showing that the decay rate is even higher for these "thick wall" bubbles. The results imply either tiny black holes are not a component of our universe, or BSM corrections to the Higgs potential must stabilise our vacuum.
Author(s): Gregory R, Moss IG
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics
Year of Conference: 2016
Acceptance date: 02/04/2016
Date deposited: 10/08/2017
ISSN: 1824-8039
Publisher: Proceedings of Science (PoS)
URL: https://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/282/344/ICHEP2016_344.pdf
Notes: PoS(ICHEP2016)344
Series Title: Proceedings of Science
