Towards a realistic solution of the cosmological constant fine-tuning problem by Higgs inflation

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

Why the cosmological constant ΛΛ observed today is so much smaller than the Planck scale or why the universe is accelerating at present? This is so-called the cosmological constant fine-tuning problem. In this paper, we find that this problem is solved with the help of Higgs inflation by simply assuming a variable cosmological "constant" during the inflation epoch. In the meanwhile, it could predict a large tensor-to-scalar ratio r≈0.20r\approx 0.20 and a large running of spectral index ns′≈−0.028n'_s \approx -0.028 with a red-tilt spectrum ns≈0.96n_s \approx 0.96, as well as a big enough number of e-folds N≈40N\approx 40 that required to solve the problems in the Big Bang cosmology with the help of ΛΛ.

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