Agravity

被引:270
作者
Salvio, Alberto [1 ,2 ]
Strumia, Alessandro [3 ,4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
[3] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis, Pisa, Italy
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Pisa, Italy
[5] NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
关键词
Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Renormalization Group; Models of Quantum Gravity; RENORMALIZATION-GROUP EQUATIONS; QUANTUM-FIELD THEORY; CONFORMAL-INVARIANCE; MODELS; SYMMETRY; UNITARITY; ENERGY; BOSON; HIGGS;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP06(2014)080
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We explore the possibility that the fundamental theory of nature does not contain any scale. This implies a renormalizable quantum gravity theory where the graviton kinetic term has 4 derivatives, and can be reinterpreted as gravity minus an anti-graviton. We compute the super-Planckian RGE of adimensional gravity coupled to a generic matter sector. The Planck scale and a flat space can arise dynamically at quantum level provided that a quartic scalar coupling and its beta function vanish at the Planck scale. This is how the Higgs boson behaves for M-h approximate to 125 GeV and M-t approximate to 171 GeV. Within agravity, inflation is a generic phenomenon: the slow-roll parameters are given by the beta-functions of the theory, and are small if couplings are perturbative. The predictions n(s) approximate to 0.967 and r approximate to 0.13 arise if the inflaton is identified with the Higgs of gravity. Furthermore, quadratically divergent corrections to the Higgs mass vanish: a small weak scale is natural and can be generated by agravity quantum corrections.
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