Incorporating fermions in the Gaussian Effective Potential: the Higgs-Top Sector

Abstract

The Higgs-Top model is studied by a non-perturbative variational extension of the Gaussian Effective Potential that incorporates fermions. In the limit of a very strong Yukawa coupling the one-loop result is shown to follow a single-parameter scaling while the gaussian fluctuations give rise to important deviations from scaling and to a reduction of the vev and of the top mass. A good general agreement is found with lattice data when a comparison can be made. The vacuum is shown to be stable for any choice of the Yukawa coupling, at variance with renormalized perturbation theory. Analytical results are provided for few observables like the renormalized mass of the Higgs boson and its wave function renormalization constant. Extensions to gauge theories like QCD are briefly discussed.

A brief discussion on vacuum stability and few references have been added in the new version

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