Stationary configurations of the Standard Model Higgs potential: electroweak stability and rising inflection point
| Autor: | Iacobellis, Giuseppe, Masina, Isabella |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. D 94, 073005 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.073005 |
| Popis: | We study the gauge-independent observables associated with two interesting stationary configurations of the Standard Model Higgs potential (extrapolated to high energy according to the present state of the art, namely the NNLO): i) the value of the top mass ensuring stability of the SM electroweak minimum, and ii) the value of the Higgs potential at a rising inflection point. We examine in detail and reappraise the experimental and theoretical uncertainties which plague their determination, finding that: i) stability of the SM is compatible with the present data at the 1.5 sigma level; ii) despite the large theoretical error plaguing the value of the Higgs potential at a rising inflection point, application of such configuration to models of primordial inflation displays a 3 sigma tension with the recent bounds on the tensor-to-scalar ratio of cosmological perturbations. Comment: v1: 21 pages, 6 figures; v2: 22 pages, 7 figures, text improved, figure and references added, matches published version |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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