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Spontaneous Charge Breaking in the NMSSM - Dangerous or not?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-06-28 v1

Abstract

We investigate the impact of charge-breaking minima on the vacuum stability of the NMSSM. We find that, in contrast to Two-Higgs-Doublet Models like the MSSM, at both tree- and loop-level there exists global charge-breaking minima. Consequently, many regions of parameter space are rendered metastable, which otherwise would have been considered stable if these charge-breaking minima were neglected. However, the inclusion of these new scalar field directions has little impact on otherwise metastable vacuum configurations.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05329,
  title  = {Spontaneous Charge Breaking in the NMSSM - Dangerous or not?},
  author = {Manuel E. Krauss and Toby Opferkuch and Florian Staub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05329},
  year   = {2017}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures