Bounds on the nonminimal coupling of the Higgs boson to gravity

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Feb 1;110(5):051301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.051301. Epub 2013 Feb 1.

Abstract

We derive the first bound on the value of the Higgs boson nonminimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. We show that the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN implies that the nonminimal coupling is smaller than 2.6×10(15).