We argue that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model can lead to inflation and
produce cosmological perturbations in accordance with observations. An
essential requirement is the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs scalar field to
gravity; no new particle besides already present in the electroweak theory is
required.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Journal version -- discussion added and typos
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We show that the extension of the standard model by three right-handed neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale (the νMSM) can explain simultaneously dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the universe and be consistent with the experiments on neutrino oscillations. Several constraints on the parameters of the νMSM are derived.
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