EFT naturalness: an effective field theory analysis of Higgs naturalness
Abstract
Assuming the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) with a characteristic scale M ~ O(10) TeV, we investigate the naturalness of the Higgs sector at scales below M using an effective field theory (EFT) approach. We obtain the leading 1-loop EFT contributions to the Higgs mass with a Wilsonian-like hard cutoff, and determine the constraints on the corresponding operator coefficients for these effects to alleviate the little hierarchy problem up to the scale of the effective action \Lambda < M, a condition we denote by "EFT-naturalness". We also determine the types of physics that can lead to EFT-naturalness and show that these types of new physics are best probed in vector-boson and multiple-Higgs production. The current experimental constraints on these coefficients are also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1405.2924,
title = {EFT naturalness: an effective field theory analysis of Higgs naturalness},
author = {Shaouly Bar-Shalom and Amarjit Soni and Jose Wudka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2924},
year = {2015}
}
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latex, 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table