Higgs mass and vacuum stability in the Standard Model at NNLO

Degrassi, Giuseppe; Di Vita, Stefano; Elias-Miro, Joan; Espinosa, Jose R.; Giudice, Gian F.; Isidori, Gino; Strumia, Alessandro

doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2012)098

Higgs mass and vacuum stability in the Standard Model at NNLO

Giuseppe Degrassi
(
- Rome III U. and
- INFN, Rome3
)
,
Stefano Di Vita
(
- Rome III U. and
- INFN, Rome3
)
,
Joan Elias-Miro
(
- Barcelona, IFAE
)
,
Jose R. Espinosa
(
- Barcelona, IFAE and
- ICREA, Barcelona
)
,
Gian F. Giudice
(
- CERN
)

May, 2012

35 pages

Published in:

JHEP 08 (2012) 098

e-Print:

1205.6497 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1007/JHEP08(2012)098

Report number:

CERN-PH-TH-2012-134,
RM3-TH-12-9

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We present the first complete next-to-next-to-leading order analysis of the Standard Model Higgs potential. We computed the two-loop QCD and Yukawa corrections to the relation between the Higgs quartic coupling (lambda) and the Higgs mass (Mh), reducing the theoretical uncertainty in the determination of the critical value of Mh for vacuum stability to 1 GeV. While lambda at the Planck scale is remarkably close to zero, absolute stability of the Higgs potential is excluded at 98% C.L. for Mh < 126 GeV. Possible consequences of the near vanishing of lambda at the Planck scale, including speculations about the role of the Higgs field during inflation, are discussed.

Note:

35 pages, 8 figures. Final published version, misprints fixed, figures updated

potential: Higgs
vacuum state: stability
Higgs particle: mass
correction: Yukawa
higher-order: 2
quantum chromodynamics
inflation
Higgs particle: coupling
inflaton: Higgs particle

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