Next-to-Next-Leading Order analysis of electroweak vacuum stability and rising inflection point
Abstract
We show an analysis on the gauge-independent observables associated with two stationary configurations of the Standard Model (SM) potential (extrapolated to high energy at Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order (NNLO)): i) the value of the top mass ensuring stability of the SM electroweak vacuum and ii) the value of the Higgs potential at a rising inflection point. We examine in detail and reappraise the experimental and theoretical uncertainties which plague their determination, keeping alive the possibility for the SM of being stable and studying applications of such configuration to models of primordial inflation.
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@article{arxiv.1609.09228,
title = {Next-to-Next-Leading Order analysis of electroweak vacuum stability and rising inflection point},
author = {Giuseppe Iacobellis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09228},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 28th Rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology, May 29 - June 03, 2016. Based on arXiv:1604.06046