Gravitational corrections to electroweak vacuum decay: metric vs. Palatini
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| author | Gialamas, Ioannis D. Karam, Alexandros Pappas, Thomas D. |
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| contents | We consider the standard Einstein-Hilbert-Higgs action where the Higgs field couples nonminimally with gravity via the term $ξh^2 \mathcal{R}$, and investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum in the presence of gravitational corrections in both the metric and Palatini formulations of gravity. In order to identify the differences between the two formalisms analytically, we follow a perturbative approach in which the gravitational corrections are taken into consideration via a leading order expansion in the gravitational coupling constant. Our analysis shows that in the Palatini formalism, the well-known effect of gravity suppressing the vacuum decay probability, becomes milder in comparison with the metric case for any value of the nonminimal coupling $ξ$. Furthermore, we have found that in the Palatini formalism, the positivity of the gravitational corrections, which is a necessary requirement for the unitarity of the theory, entails the lower bound $ξ>-1/12$. |
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| spellingShingle | Gravitational corrections to electroweak vacuum decay: metric vs. Palatini Gialamas, Ioannis D. Karam, Alexandros Pappas, Thomas D. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory We consider the standard Einstein-Hilbert-Higgs action where the Higgs field couples nonminimally with gravity via the term $ξh^2 \mathcal{R}$, and investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum in the presence of gravitational corrections in both the metric and Palatini formulations of gravity. In order to identify the differences between the two formalisms analytically, we follow a perturbative approach in which the gravitational corrections are taken into consideration via a leading order expansion in the gravitational coupling constant. Our analysis shows that in the Palatini formalism, the well-known effect of gravity suppressing the vacuum decay probability, becomes milder in comparison with the metric case for any value of the nonminimal coupling $ξ$. Furthermore, we have found that in the Palatini formalism, the positivity of the gravitational corrections, which is a necessary requirement for the unitarity of the theory, entails the lower bound $ξ>-1/12$. |
| title | Gravitational corrections to electroweak vacuum decay: metric vs. Palatini |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03052 |