Vacuum Stability in the Standard Model and Beyond

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Autori principali: Hiller, Gudrun, Höhne, Tim, Litim, Daniel F., Steudtner, Tom
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Hiller, Gudrun
Höhne, Tim
Litim, Daniel F.
Steudtner, Tom
author_facet Hiller, Gudrun
Höhne, Tim
Litim, Daniel F.
Steudtner, Tom
contents We revisit the stability of the Standard Model vacuum, and investigate its quantum effective potential using the highest available orders in perturbation theory and the most accurate determination of input parameters to date. We observe that the stability of the electroweak vacuum centrally depends on the values of the top mass and the strong coupling constant. We estimate that reducing their uncertainties by a factor of two to three is sufficient to establish or refute SM vacuum stability at the $5σ$ level. We further investigate vacuum stability for a variety of singlet scalar field extensions with and without flavor using the Higgs portal mechanism. We identify the BSM parameter spaces for stability and find sizable room for new physics. We further study the phenomenology of Planck-safe models at colliders, and determine the impact on the Higgs trilinear, the Higgs-to-electroweak-boson, and the Higgs quartic couplings, some of which can be significant. The former two can be probed at the HL-LHC, the latter requires a future collider with sufficient energy and precision such as the FCC-hh.
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spellingShingle Vacuum Stability in the Standard Model and Beyond
Hiller, Gudrun
Höhne, Tim
Litim, Daniel F.
Steudtner, Tom
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We revisit the stability of the Standard Model vacuum, and investigate its quantum effective potential using the highest available orders in perturbation theory and the most accurate determination of input parameters to date. We observe that the stability of the electroweak vacuum centrally depends on the values of the top mass and the strong coupling constant. We estimate that reducing their uncertainties by a factor of two to three is sufficient to establish or refute SM vacuum stability at the $5σ$ level. We further investigate vacuum stability for a variety of singlet scalar field extensions with and without flavor using the Higgs portal mechanism. We identify the BSM parameter spaces for stability and find sizable room for new physics. We further study the phenomenology of Planck-safe models at colliders, and determine the impact on the Higgs trilinear, the Higgs-to-electroweak-boson, and the Higgs quartic couplings, some of which can be significant. The former two can be probed at the HL-LHC, the latter requires a future collider with sufficient energy and precision such as the FCC-hh.
title Vacuum Stability in the Standard Model and Beyond
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08811