PIRSA:09050058

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http://pirsa.org/09050058

Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation

Trott, M. (2009). Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. http://pirsa.org/09050058

Trott, Michael. Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May. 21, 2009, http://pirsa.org/09050058 

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            doi = {},
            url = {http://pirsa.org/09050058},
            author = {Trott, Michael},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2009},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:09050058 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/PIRSA/09050058}}
          }

Michael Trott Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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We use the power-counting formalism of effective field  theory to study the size of loop corrections in theories of slow-roll inflation, with the aim of more precisely identifying the limits of validity of the usual classical inflationary treatments. Although most slow-roll models lie within the semiclassical domain, we find the consistency of the Higgs-Inflaton scenario to be more delicate due to the proximity between the Hubble scale during inflation and the upper bound allowed by unitarity on the new-physics scale.