# The Selfish Higgs

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a cosmological selection mechanism where membrane nucleation causes discrete changes in the Higgs mass and cosmological constant, favoring universes with near-zero values that enable inflation and universe formation.

## Contribution

It presents a novel approach linking membrane nucleation to Higgs naturalness, proposing a multiverse selection process based on cosmological and Higgs parameter correlations.

## Key findings

- Universes with near-zero Higgs mass and cosmological constant are selected by inflation.
- Membrane nucleation causes discrete jumps in fundamental parameters.
- The mechanism explains the smallness of the Higgs mass through cosmological dynamics.

## Abstract

We propose a mechanism to solve the Higgs naturalness problem through a cosmological selection process. The discharging of excited field configurations through membrane nucleation leads to discrete jumps of the cosmological constant and the Higgs mass, which vary in a correlated way. The resulting multitude of universes are all empty, except for those in which the cosmological constant and the Higgs mass are both nearly vanishing. Only under these critical conditions can inflation be activated and create a non-empty universe.