{ "id": "2305.07693", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-05-12T18:00:01.000Z", "updated": "2023-05-12T18:00:01.000Z", "title": "Electroweak vacuum decay in metric-affine gravity", "authors": [ "Ioannis D. Gialamas", "Hardi Veermäe" ], "comment": "6 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "hep-th", "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "We investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum in metric-affine gravity in which the Standard Model Higgs boson can be non-minimally coupled to both the Ricci scalar and the Holst invariant. We find that vacuum stability is improved in this framework across a wide range of model parameters.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-05-12T18:00:01.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "electroweak vacuum decay", "metric-affine gravity", "standard model higgs boson", "ricci scalar", "holst invariant" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }