Minima of classically scale-invariant potentials

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2021)128MaRDI QIDQ2044923zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kristjan Kannike, Kaius Loos, Luca Marzola

Publication date 10 August 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12304

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: We propose a new formalism to analyse the extremum structure of scale-invariant effective potentials. The problem is stated in a compact matrix form, used to derive general expressions for the stationary point equation and the mass matrix of a multi-field RG-improved effective potential. Our method improves on (but is not limited to) the Gildener-Weinberg approximation and identifies a set of conditions that signal the presence of a radiative minimum. When the conditions are satisfied at different scales, or in different subspaces of the field space, the effective potential has more than one radiative minimum. We illustrate the method through simple examples and study in detail a Standard-Model-like scenario where the potential admits two radiative minima. Whereas we mostly concentrate on biquadratic potentials, our results carry over to the general case by using tensor algebra.

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