Forum on (Meta-)Stability of the Electroweak Vacuum

Seminar room 3, 3:00 pm

We give an exhaustive review about the question of (meta-)stability of the vacuum in the Standard Model
in the light of the Higgs discovery and its possible implications for physics beyond the Standard Model.

B. Kniehl (Hamburg Univ.): Vacuum stability in the Standard Model at two loops
S.-O. Moch (Hamburg Univ.): How the top-quark mass affects electro-weak vacuum stability
A. Westphal (DESY): Inflationary ramifications of a meta-stable Higgs vacuum