Implications of the top (and Higgs) mass for vacuum stability

Abstract

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the LHC and the measurement of its mass at around 125 GeV, taken together with the absence of signals of physics beyond the standard model, make it possible that we might live in a metastable electroweak vacuum. Intriguingly, we seem to be very close to the boundary of stability and this near-criticality makes our vacuum extremely long-lived. In this talk I describe the state-of-the-art calculation leading to these results, explaining what are the ingredients and assumptions that enter in it, with special emphasis on the role of the top mass. I also discuss possible implications of this metastability for physics beyond the standard model and comment on the possible impact of physics at the Planck scale on near-criticality.

Long version of proceedings for the 8th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, TOP2015. 14-18 September, 2015. Ischia, Italy

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