How the Higgs potential got its shape

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2023.116109MaRDI QIDQ6410627arXivFDO

Authors Jens Mund, Karl-Henning Rehren, Bert Schroer

Publication date 13 September 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2023.116109

Localization and completion in homotopy theory (55P60) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

arXiv classification

hep-th math-ph math.MP

Abstract: String-localized quantum field theory allows renormalizable couplings involving massive vector bosons, without invoking negative-norm states and compensating ghosts. We analyze the most general coupling of a massive vector boson to a scalar field, and find that the scalar field necessarily comes with a quartic potential which has the precise shape of the shifted Higgs potential. In other words: the shape of the Higgs potential has not to be assumed, but arises as a consistency condition among fundamental principles of QFT: Hilbert space, causality, and covariance. The consistency can be achieved by relaxing the localization properties of auxiliary quantities, including interacting charged fields, while observable fields and the S-matrix are not affected. This is an instance of the "L-V formalism" - a novel model-independent scheme that can be used as a tool to "renormalize the non-renormalizable" by adding a total derivative to the interaction.

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