Bounds on the Nonminimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.051301
• Publication Date: 2013-02-01T20:33:21Z
• Authors: Michael Atkins; Xavier Calmet
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Theory; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); 01 natural sciences; QC; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

We derive the first bound on the value of the Higgs boson non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. We show that the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN implies that the non-minimal coupling is smaller than $2.6\times 10^{15}$.<br/>7 pages<br/>