Vacuum metastability with black holes and fate of the Higgs vacuum


  Philipp Burda  
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

We show that black holes, acting as impurities, could stimulate false vacuum decay. We consider an application of such catalyzation by black holes for the problem of metastability of the Higgs vacuum in the Standard Model. For this example, we discuss a set of numerical solutions of fully backreacted Einstein-Higgs system without thin-wall approximation.