Toy models for hierarchy studies
Abstract
We provide a simple computation in order to estimate the probability of a given hierarchy between two scales. In particular, we work in a model provided with a gauge symmetry, with two scalar doublets. We start from a scale-invariant classical Lagrangian, but by taking into account the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, we obtain masses for the gauge bosons and the scalars. This approach typically provides a light (L) and a heavy (H) sector related to the two different vacuum expectation values of the two scalars. We compute the size of the hyper-volume of the parameter space of the model associated with an interval of mass ratios between these two sectors. We define the probability as proportional to this size and conclude that probabilities of very large hierarchies are not negligible in the type of models studied in this letter.
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@article{arxiv.2109.04955,
title = {Toy models for hierarchy studies},
author = {Clara Álvarez-Luna and José A. R. Cembranos and Juan José Sanz-Cillero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04955},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
11 pages, 5 figures. Published version, appendices added