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Precise vacuum stability bound in the standard model
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This is an addendum to the paper of the above title published in Physics Letters B317, 159 (1993). In that paper, I found the lower bound to the Higgs mass as a function of the top quark mass one obtains by requiring that the standard model vacuum be stable. It included all higher order corrections to two-loops, precise definitions of the Higgs and top masses, etc. Unfortunately, the results were given for top quark masses between 120 and 160 GeV. In this addendum, I give the results for masses between 160 and 190 GeV. The main result, using a value of 0.117 for the strong coupling at the Z-mass, is M_Higgs > 132 + 2.2 (M_top-170) in GeV units. This increases (decreases) by 4.5 GeV if the strong coupling decreases (increases) by 0.007, and is accurate to 1 GeV in the top mass. This will be submitted to Phys. Lett. as an addendum.
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- Authors
- Sher, M.
- Venue
- Physics Letters B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1993-11
- Volume
- 317
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 159-163
- ISSN
- 0370-2693 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1988642525
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 7.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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