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Stabilization of the electroweak vacuum by a scalar threshold effect

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)031

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Standard Model

Funding

  1. CERN
  2. ESF [MTT8]
  3. Spanish Ministry MICINN [FPA2010-17747, FPA2008-01430]
  4. Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme CPAN [CSD2007-00042]
  5. Generalitat de Catalunya [2009SGR894]
  6. [SF0690030s09]
  7. National Research Foundation of Korea [2012K1A3A2A01051781] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
  8. ICREA Funding Source: Custom

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We show how a heavy scalar singlet with a large vacuum expectation value can evade the potential instability of the Standard Model electroweak vacuum. The quartic interaction between the heavy scalar singlet and the Higgs doublet leads to a positive tree-level threshold correction for the Higgs quartic coupling, which is very effective in stabilizing the potential. We provide examples, such as the see-saw, invisible axion and unitarized Higgs inflation, where the proposed mechanism is automatically implemented in well-defined ranges of Higgs masses.

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