trailA high-energy particle collision could trigger the universe's vacuum to decay into a more stable state.
Particle collisions at the LHC pose no danger to Earth.
Electroweak vacuum metastability· for
The Standard Model electroweak vacuum is metastable rather than absolutely stable.
The Higgs quartic coupling runs negative near 10^10 to 10^11 GeV for central Standard Model parameters.
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No new physics modifies the Standard Model below the Higgs potential instability scale.
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Uncertainties in the top-quark mass leave absolute electroweak vacuum stability consistent with current measurements.
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Cosmic-ray bound· against
Cosmic rays with energies exceeding LHC collision energies have struck Earth for billions of years without causing catastrophe.
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Suppressed nucleation rates· against
The predicted lifetime of the metastable electroweak vacuum vastly exceeds the current age of the universe.
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A high-energy particle collision could trigger the universe's vacuum to decay into a more stable state.
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