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The Higgs potential of the two-Higgs-doublet model can have several minima with different properties. We discuss a possibility that a heavy fermion, if trapped in a microscopic false vacuum bubble, might become light enough to prevent the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-02 I. P. Ivanov

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.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Manuel E. Krauss , Toby Opferkuch , Florian Staub

The most general $SU(2)\times U(1)_Y$-symmetric quartic potential with two Higgs doublets, subject to an only softly broken discrete symmetry $(\phi_1,\phi_2)\to(-\phi_1,\phi_2)$, is considered. At tree-level, analytic bounds on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kastening

We study the vacuum behavior of an extended Higgs sector with two doublets in a scenario with a softly broken \texorpdfstring{$U(1)$}{lg} global symmetry. The soft-violation term is introduced to avoid massless-axion particles arising when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-28 Andrés Castillo , Rodolfo A. Diaz , John Morales , Carlos G. Tarazona

We study the theoretical and phenomenological constraints imposed on the scalar sector of the gauged two Higgs doublet model proposed recently as a variant of the popular inert Higgs doublet model of dark matter. The requirements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-19 Abdesslam Arhrib , Wei-Chih Huang , Raymundo Ramos , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

In this paper, we present the novel analytical expressions for the bounded-from-below or the vacuum stability conditions of scalar potential for a general CP violating two-Higgs-doublet model by using the concepts of co-positivity and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Yisheng Song

Tree-level dynamical stability of scalar field potentials in renormalizable theories can in principle be expressed in terms of positivity conditions on quartic polynomial structures. However, these conditions cannot always be cast in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Gilbert Moultaka , Michel C. Peyranère

The long-awaited Higgs particle H around 125 GeV has been observed at the LHC. Interpreting it as the standard model Higgs boson and if there is no new physics between electroweak and Planck scale, we then don't have a stable vacuum. Here,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Yong Tang

For potentials with n-Higgs-boson doublets stability, electroweak symmetry breaking, and the stationarity equations are discussed in detail. This is done within the bilinear formalism which simplifies the investigation, in particular since…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 M. Maniatis , O. Nachtmann

We investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum for two-Higgs doublet models with a supersymmetric UV completion. The supersymmetry breaking scale is taken to be of the order of the grand unification scale. We first study the case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Emanuele Bagnaschi , Felix Brümmer , Wilfried Buchmüller , Alexander Voigt , Georg Weiglein

We perform a systematic study of generic accidental Higgs-family and CP symmetries that could occur in the two-Higgs-doublet-model potential, based on a Majorana scalar-field formalism which realizes a subgroup of GL(8,C). We derive the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Richard A. Battye , Gary D. Brawn , Apostolos Pilaftsis

The stability of the electroweak potential is a very important constraint for models of new physics. At the moment, it is standard for Two-Higgs doublet models (THDM), singlet or triplet extensions of the standard model to perform these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Florian Staub

We analyse the possibility of charge breaking minima developing in the Higgs triplet model, and under what conditions they are deeper than charge-preserving ones. Analytical expressions relating the depth of minima of different types are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 P. M. Ferreira , B. L. Gonçalves

We revisit the stability of the Standard Model vacuum, and investigate its quantum effective potential using the highest available orders in perturbation theory and the most accurate determination of input parameters to date. We observe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Gudrun Hiller , Tim Höhne , Daniel F. Litim , Tom Steudtner

If the Higgs mass m_H is as low as suggested by present experimental information, the Standard Model ground state might not be absolutely stable. We present a detailed analysis of the lower bounds on m_H imposed by the requirement that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Gino Isidori , Giovanni Ridolfi , Alessandro Strumia

We study vacuum stability of supersymmetric extended Higgs sectors with a discrete $Z_2$ symmetry. These models may be able to explain dark matter, neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe and hierarchy problem simultaneously at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-28 Naoki Machida

The Standard Model electroweak vacuum has been found to be metastable, with the true stable vacuum given by a large, phenomenologically unacceptable vacuum expectation value $\approx M_{P}$. Moreover, it may be unstable in an inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Archil Kobakhidze , Alexander Spencer-Smith

We consider the conditions for the validity of a two-Higgs doublet model at high energy scales, together with all other low- and high-energy constraints. The constraints on the parameter space at low energy, including the measured value of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-07 Nabarun Chakrabarty , Ujjal Kumar Dey , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

We study the stability of neutral electroweak vacua in two Higgs doublet models, and calculate the lifetime of these states when the parameters are such that they are false vacua. As the two Higgs doublet model is invariant under a sign…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 V. Branchina , F. Contino , P. M. Ferreira

The question of stability of the Higgs potential in the Standard Model is revisited employing advanced theoretical precision and recent experimental results. We show that the top mass and strong coupling constants are key observables in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Tom Steudtner