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On the metastability of the Standard Model vacuum

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If the Higgs mass m_H is as low as suggested by present experimental information, the Standard Model ground state might not be absolutely stable. We present a detailed analysis of the lower bounds on m_H imposed by the requirement that the electroweak vacuum be sufficiently long-lived. We perform a complete one-loop calculation of the tunnelling probability at zero temperature, and we improve it by means of two-loop renormalization-group equations. We find that, for m_H=115 GeV, the Higgs potential develops an instability below the Planck scale for m_t>(166\pm 2) GeV, but the electroweak vacuum is sufficiently long-lived for m_t < (175\pm 2) \GeV.

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Late-time Quantum Vacuum Decay and its Cosmological Implications

astro-ph.CO · 2026-05-28 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Phenomenological late-time vacuum-tunneling models are fit to DESI DR2, supernova, and CMB data, allowing up to 50% vacuum-energy drop for z_t < 1 and a preferred z_t ~7 model that converts ~10% dark matter while easing cosmological tensions.

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  • Fourier-Preconditioned Path Deformations for Multi-Field Vacuum Tunnelling hep-ph · 2026-06-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Endpoint-safe Fourier sine deformations of straight-line paths achieve sub-percent agreement with FindBounce, OptiBounce and CosmoTransitions on multi-field benchmarks while cutting runtime up to 90% when used as initializer.

  • Late-time Quantum Vacuum Decay and its Cosmological Implications astro-ph.CO · 2026-05-28 · unverdicted · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    Phenomenological late-time vacuum-tunneling models are fit to DESI DR2, supernova, and CMB data, allowing up to 50% vacuum-energy drop for z_t < 1 and a preferred z_t ~7 model that converts ~10% dark matter while easing cosmological tensions.