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We argue that the rate of Standard Model vacuum or thermal decay seeded by primordial black holes is negligible (because non-perturbatively suppressed by the small quartic Higgs coupling) and independent of the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs to gravity.
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Strumia, A. Black holes don’t source fast Higgs vacuum decay. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 39 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)039
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