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arxiv: 1809.00131 · v1 · pith:UUS7FF5Dnew · submitted 2018-09-01 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.CO

Higgs Cosmology and Dark Matter

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keywords higgsblackvacuumcosmologydarkholesmatteraddition
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Higgs vacuum stability has important consequences for cosmology. In particular, we argue that if the Higgs vacuum is metastable, then the dark matter cannot contain a single black hole of mass less than $10^{15}{\rm g}$ in our entire past light cone. In addition to being the destroyer microscopic black holes, it may be possible that Higgs vacuum decay is a source of primordial black holes during inflation.

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