On the gauge dependence of the Standard Model vacuum instability scale

After reviewing the calculation of the Standard Model one-loop effective potential in a class of linear gauges, we discuss the physical observables entering the vacuum stability analysis. While the electroweak-vacuum-stability bound on the Higgs boson mass can be formally proven to be gauge independ...

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Hauptverfasser: Di Luzio, Luca (VerfasserIn) , Mihaila, Luminita (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 12 June 2014
In: Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2014, Jahrgang: 2014, Heft: 6, Pages: 79
ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP06(2014)079
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)079
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)079
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Verfasserangaben:Luca Di Luzio and Luminita Mihaila
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Zusammenfassung:After reviewing the calculation of the Standard Model one-loop effective potential in a class of linear gauges, we discuss the physical observables entering the vacuum stability analysis. While the electroweak-vacuum-stability bound on the Higgs boson mass can be formally proven to be gauge independent, the field value at which the effective potential turns negative (the so-called instability scale) is a gauge dependent quantity. By varying the gauge-fixing scheme and the gauge-fixing parameters in their perturbative domain, we find an irreducible theoretical uncertainty of at least two orders of magnitude on the scale at which the Standard Model vacuum becomes unstable.
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ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP06(2014)079