Vacuum Stability and the Higgs Boson
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2013-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, and especially the determination of its mass around 125 GeV, together with the absence of any trace of new physics make it conceivable that we live in a metastable (but long-lived) electroweak vacuum. I will describe the state-of-the-art calculation that leads to this conclusion, elaborate on possible implications as well as cures of this instability of the Higgs potential and discuss some possible lines of attack for lattice studies of such metastability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.1970,
title = {Vacuum Stability and the Higgs Boson},
author = {Jose R. Espinosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1970},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
15 pages. Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE 2013