Quantum gravitational contributions to the standard model effective potential and vacuum stability

DOI10.1142/S0217732315501898zbMATH Open1333.81435arXiv1502.03093MaRDI QIDQ5744682FDOQ5744682

Authors: Florian Loebbert, Jan Plefka 

Publication date: 19 February 2016

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the quantum gravitational contributions to the standard model effective potential and analyze their effects on the Higgs vacuum stability in the framework of effective field theory. Non-renormalizability of Einstein gravity induces higher dimension $ph{i}^6$ and $ph{i}^8$ operators at the one-loop level with novel couplings $et{a}_{1/2}$. The beta functions of these couplings are established and the impact of the gravity induced contributions on electroweak vacuum stability is studied. We find that the true minimum of the standard model effective potential now lies below the Planck scale for almost the entire parameter space ($et{a}_{1/2}(m_{e}xtt)>0.01$). In addition quantum gravity is shown to contribute to the minimal value of the standard model NLO effective potential at the percent level. The quantum gravity induced contributions yield a metastable vacuum for a large fraction of the parameter space in the flowing couplings $et{a}_{1/2}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03093

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zbMATH Keywords

effective potentialquantum gravitystandard modelRG flowhigher-dimensional operatorsvacuum stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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