One residue to rule them all: electroweak symmetry breaking, inflation and field-space geometry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135876zbMATH Open1472.81289arXiv2006.11290OpenAlexW3036264743WikidataQ125899490 ScholiaQ125899490MaRDI QIDQ820340FDOQ820340

Authors: Georgios K. Karananas, Marco Michel, Javier Rubio 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We point out that the successful generation of the electroweak scale via gravitational instanton configurations in certain scalar-tensor theories can be viewed as the aftermath of a simple requirement: the existence of a quadratic pole with a sufficiently small residue in the Einstein-frame kinetic term for the Higgs field. In some cases, the inflationary dynamics may also be controlled by this residue and therefore related to the Fermi-to-Planck mass ratio, up to possible uncertainties associated with the instanton regularization. We present here a unified framework for this hierarchy generation mechanism, showing that the aforementioned residue can be associated with the curvature of the Einstein-frame target manifold in models displaying spontaneous breaking of dilatations. Our findings are illustrated through examples previously considered in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11290

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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