Cosmology: theory

Abstract

The discovery of 126 GeV Higgs boson and observations of no signs of new physics at the LHC implies that the Standard Model of elementary particles is a self-consistent weakly-coupled effective field theory all the way up to the Planck scale without the addition of any new particles. I will discuss possible consequences of these findings for cosmology.

Comments: Plenary talk delivered at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, 18-24 July, 2013, Stockholm, Sweden