The one loop renormalization of the effective Higgs sector and its implications

Abstract

We study the one-loop renormalization the standard model with anomalous Higgs couplings ($O(p^2)$) by using the background field method, and provide the whole divergence structure at one loop level. The one-loop divergence structure indicates that, under the quantum corrections, only after taking into account the mass terms of Z bosons ($O(p^2)$) and the whole bosonic sector of the electroweak chiral Lagrangian ($O(p^4)$), can the effective Lagrangian be complete up to $O(p^4)$.

ReVTeX, 18 pages; in the sequel to hep-ph/0211258, hep-ph/0211301, and hep-ph/0212367