Can Higgs be the inflaton - can LHC produce an inflaton 750

[kodama]

could the higgs boson be the inflaton 126gev

if not could the possible 750gev diphoton be the inflaton?

what are the properties of the inflaton? could inflaton be scalar dark matter?

 

[mfb]

could the higgs boson be the inflaton 126gev

Where is the model that would get all the measured couplings right?

if not could the possible 750gev diphoton be the inflaton?

I don't see how you would get that right with the much higher scale of inflation. On the other hand, I didn't check all the ~200 arxiv submissions that appeared so far.

what are the properties of the inflaton?

See the various theory papers for predictions.

could inflaton be scalar dark matter?

Is that question based on anything?

 

[Garth]

could the higgs boson be the inflaton 126gev?

See Higgs Inflation is Still Alive after the Results from BICEP2

The observed value of the Higgs boson mass indicates that the Higgs potential becomes small and flat at the scale around 10¹⁷GeV. Having this fact in mind, we reconsider the Higgs inflation scenario proposed by Bezrukov and Shaposhnikov. It turns out that the nonminimal coupling ξ of the Higgs squared to the Ricci scalar can be smaller than 10. For example, ξ=7 corresponds to the tensor-to-scalar ratio r≃0.2, which is consistent with the recent observation by BICEP2.

Garth