TY - T1 - Probing Gravitational Degrees of Freedom through Cosmic Inflation SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-951-51-5348-7; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/303929 T3 - A1 - Wahlman, Lumi-Pyry A2 - PB - Helsingin yliopisto Y1 - 2019 LA - en AB - Among all models of inflation, Higgs inflation stands out in its minimalistic approach. In Higgs inflation, the Standard Model Higgs boson drives the expansion of the spacetime. The properties of the Higgs boson are known from collider experiments, and the only new ingredient is a non-minimal coupling of the Higgs boson to gravity. There is no need to add any new particles, and the non-minimal coupling is the only free parameter of the model. While the predictions of Higgs inflation agree wit... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - teoreettinen fysiikka, kosmologia N1 - PP - ER -