Implications of the detection of primordial gravitational waves for the
  Standard Model
  The detection of primordial gravitational waves would not only have
extraordinary implications for our understanding of early cosmology, but would
also give non-trivial constraints on Standard Model parameters, under the
assumption that no new physics enters below the Higgs instability scale. We
study the resulting bounds on the top quark mass and the strong coupling
constant, discussing their theoretical uncertainties and their robustness
against changes in other parameters.
