Particlelike solutions of modified gravity: the Higgs monopoles

Understand

The lore paradigm for solving so-called horizon and flatness problems in cosmology is the primordial inflation.

• Plethora of inflationary models have been built in last decades and first experimental probes seem to appear in favor of the inflationary paradigm.
• We will focus here on one of them, the Higgs inflation, and show the combined constraint required for such a model at cosmological as well as gravitational scales, i.e.
• for compact objects.