Higgs Cosmology and Dark Matter

Abstract

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 $10^{15}\mathrm{g}$ 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.

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures. Talk presented at 2nd World Summit: Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe, June 2018, University of Antilles, Guadeloupe