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On the metastability of the Standard Model vacuum
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If the Higgs mass mH is as low as suggested by present experimental information, the Standard Model ground state might not be absolutely stable. We present a detailed analysis of the lower bounds on mH imposed by the requirement that the electroweak vacuum be sufficiently long-lived. We perform a complete one-loop calculation of the tunnelling probability at zero temperature, and we improve it by means of two-loop renormalization-group equations. We find that, for mH = 115 GeV, the Higgs potential develops an instability below the Planck scale for mt > (166±2) GeV, but the electroweak vacuum is sufficiently long-lived formt < (175 ± 2) GeV.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Isidori, G., Ridolfi, G., & Strumia, A.
- Venue
- Nuclear Physics B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2001-08
- Volume
- 609
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 387-409
- ISSN
- 0550-3213 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1995919498
- Cited by
- 425
- References
- 34
- FWCI
- 2.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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