@article{c7ab6c7e6143499a989a058c3ae0007c,
title = "Cosmological stochastic Higgs field stabilization",
abstract = "We show that the stochastic evolution of an interacting system of the Higgs field and a spectator scalar field naturally gives rise to an enhanced probability of settling down at the electroweak vacuum at the end of inflation. Subsequent destabilization due to parametric resonance between the Higgs field and the spectator field can be avoided in a wide parameter range. We further argue that the spectator field can play the role of dark matter.",
author = "Gong, {Jinn Ouk} and Naoya Kitajima",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank Tommi Markkanen for useful comments. J. G. acknowledges the support from the Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Gyeongsangbuk-Do and Pohang City for Independent Junior Research Groups at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics. J. G. is also supported in part by a TJ Park Science Fellowship of POSCO TJ Park Foundation and the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea Research Grant No. 2016R1D1A1B03930408. N. K. acknowledges the support by Grant-in-Aid for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellows. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 American Physical Society.",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.96.063521",
language = "English",
volume = "96",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "6",
}