Renormalization Group Flow of the Higgs Potential

Abstract

We summarize results for local and global properties of the effective potential for the Higgs boson obtained from the functional renormalization group, which allows to describe the effective potential as a function of both scalar field amplitude and RG scale. This sheds light onto the limitations of standard estimates which rely on the identification of the two scales and helps clarifying the origin of a possible property of meta-stability of the Higgs potential. We demonstrate that the inclusion of higher-dimensional operators induced by an underlying theory at a high scale (GUT or Planck scale) can relax the conventional lower bound on the Higgs mass derived from the criterion of absolute stability.

13 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings for the meeting 'Higgs Cosmology', Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chichley Hall, UK (27-28.3.2017), invited review for Phil.Trans.R.S. A

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