High Energy Theory Group Seminar: Vacuum metastability with black holes and fate of the Higgs vacuum

Abstract:

We show that black holes, acting as impurities, could stimulate false vacuum decay. We consider an application of such catalyzation by black holes for the problem of metastability of the Higgs vacuum in the Standard Model. For this example, we discuss a set of numerical solutions of fully backreacted Einstein-Higgs system without thin-wall approximation.

Seminar Organizer: Walter Tangarife