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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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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12 June 2014
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Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2014, Volume: 2014, Issue: 6, Pages: 79 |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)079 |
| Online Access: | 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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| Author Notes: | Luca Di Luzio and Luminita Mihaila |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 28.11.2017 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)079 |