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We refine and update the metastability constraint on the Standard Model top and Higgs masses, by analytically including gravitational corrections to the vacuum decay rate.
- Present best-fit ranges of the top and Higgs masses mostly lie in the narrow metastable region.
- Furthermore, we show that the SM potential can be fine-tuned in order to be made suitable for inflation.
- However, SM inflation results in a power spectrum of cosmological perturbations not consistent with observations.
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