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The RG-improved Twin Higgs effective potential at NNLL

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-22 v1

Abstract

We present the Renormalization Group improvement of the Twin Higgs effective potential at cubic order in logarithmic accuracy. We first introduce a model-independent low-energy effective Lagrangian that captures both the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson nature of the Higgs field and the twin light degrees of freedom charged under a copy of the Standard Model. We then apply the background field method to systematically re-sum all the one loop diagrams contributing to the potential. We show how this technique can be efficient to implicitly renormalize the higher-dimensional operators in the twin sector without classifying all of them. A prediction for the Higgs mass in the Twin Higgs model is derived and found to be of the order of MH120 GeVM_H \sim 120 ~\text{GeV} with an ultraviolet cut-off m1020 TeVm_*\sim 10-20 ~\text{TeV}. Irrespective of any possible ultraviolet completion of the low-energy Lagrangian, the infrared degrees of freedom alone are therefore enough to account for the observed value of the Higgs mass through running effects.

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@article{arxiv.1609.05922,
  title  = {The RG-improved Twin Higgs effective potential at NNLL},
  author = {Davide Greco and Kin Mimouni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05922},
  year   = {2016}
}

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28 pages, 6 figures