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We consider the most general effective action for the four-form fluxes in the Standard Model coupled to gravity. The Higgs mass parameter can be relaxed to a correct value due to the four-form coupling to the Higgs field and it stops changing due to an extremely suppressed transition probability from the observed cosmological constant to AdS space. We first introduce a non-minimal four-form coupling to gravity and discuss the role of a new scalar field as the inflaton and the conditions for a successful reheating at the end of relaxation.
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Lee, H.M. Relaxation of Higgs mass and cosmological constant with four-form fluxes and reheating. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 45 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)045
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