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Higgs Boson Mass Bounds in Seesaw Extended Standard Model with Non-Minimal Gravitational Coupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-12 v2

Abstract

In the presence of non-minimal gravitational coupling ξHHR \xi H^\dagger H {\cal R} between the standard model (SM) Higgs doublet HH and the curvature scalar R{\cal R}, the effective ultraviolet cutoff scale is given by ΛcutmP/ξ\Lambda_{\rm cut}\approx m_P/\xi, where mPm_P is the reduced Planck mass, and ξ1\xi \gtrsim 1 is a dimensionless coupling constant. In type I and type III seesaw extended SM, which can naturally explain the observed solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations, we investigate the implications of this non-minimal gravitational coupling for the SM Higgs boson mass bounds based on vacuum stability and perturbativity arguments. A lower bound on the Higgs boson mass close to 120 GeV is realized with type III seesaw and ξ10103\xi \sim 10-10^3.

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@article{arxiv.1009.1878,
  title  = {Higgs Boson Mass Bounds in Seesaw Extended Standard Model with Non-Minimal Gravitational Coupling},
  author = {Bin He and Nobuchika Okada and Qaisar Shafi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1878},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures; added references