A systematic approach to the SILH Lagrangian

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.03.024MaRDI QIDQ902037zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerhard Buchalla, Oscar Catà, Claudius Krause

Publication date 6 January 2016

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6356

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We consider the electroweak chiral Lagrangian, including a light scalar boson, in the limit of small $xi=v^2/f^2$. Here $v$ is the electroweak scale and $f$ is the corresponding scale of the new strong dynamics. We show how the conventional SILH Lagrangian, defined as the effective theory of a strongly-interacting light Higgs (SILH) to first order in $xi$, can be obtained as a limiting case of the complete electroweak chiral Lagrangian. The approach presented here ensures the completeness of the operator basis at the considered order, it clarifies the systematics of the effective Lagrangian, guarantees a consistent and unambiguous power counting, and it shows how the generalization of the effective field theory to higher orders in $xi$ has to be performed. We point out that terms of order $x{i}^2$, which are usually not included in the SILH Lagrangian, are parametrically larger than terms of order $xi/16p{i}^2$ that are retained, as long as $xi>1/16p{i}^2$. Conceptual issues such as custodial symmetry and its breaking are also discussed. For illustration, the minimal composite Higgs model based on the coset $SO(5)/SO(4)$ is considered at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion. It is shown how the effective Lagrangian for this model is contained as a special case in the electroweak chiral Lagrangian based on $SU(2{)}_{L}otimesSU(2{)}_R/SU(2{)}_V$.

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