Gravitational effects on vanishing Higgs potential at the Planck scale

Naoyuki Haba, Kunio Kaneta, Ryo Takahashi, Yuya Yamaguchi

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Abstract

We investigate gravitational effects on the so-called multiple point criticality principle (MPCP) at the Planck scale. The MPCP requires two degenerate vacua, whose necessary conditions are expressed by vanishing Higgs quartic coupling [λ(MPl)=0] and vanishing its β function [βλ(MPl)=0]. We discuss a case that a specific form of gravitational corrections are assumed to contribute to β functions of coupling constants [although it is accepted that gravitational corrections do not alter the running of the standard model (SM) couplings]. To satisfy the above two boundary conditions at the Planck scale, we find that the top pole mass and the Higgs mass should be 170.8GeV Mt171.7GeV and Mh=125.7±0.4GeV, respectively, as well as include suitable magnitude of gravitational effects (a coefficient of gravitational contribution as |aλ|>2). In this case, however, since the Higgs quartic coupling λ becomes negative below the Planck scale, two vacua are not degenerate. We find that Mh131.5GeV with Mt 174GeV is required by the realization of the MPCP. Therefore, the MPCP at the Planck scale cannot be realized in the SM, and also the SM with gravity since Mh131.5GeV is experimentally ruled out.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number016004
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume91
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 7 2015

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