Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-06-17
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 095019
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 9 figures, RevTex4. Final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.095019
We study the exact (one-loop) effective potential of the littlest Higgs model and determine the dependence of physical quantities, such as the vacuum expectation value v_W and mass m_h of the Higgs boson, on the fundamental parameters of the Lagrangian--masses, couplings of new states, the fundamental scale f of the sigma model, and the coefficients of operators quadratically sensitive to the cutoff of the theory. On the one hand, we show that it is possible to have the electroweak ground state and a relatively large cutoff \Lambda = 4\pi f with f in the 2 TeV range without requiring unnaturally small coefficients for quadratically divergent quantities, and with only moderate cancellations between the contribution of different sectors to the effective potential of the Higgs. On the other hand, this cannot be achieved while at the same time keeping m_h close to its (bantamweight) current lower bound of 114.4 GeV. The natural expectation for m_h is O(f), mainly because of large logarithmically divergent contributions to the effective potential of the top-quark sector. Even a fine-tuning at the level of O(10^{-2}) in the coefficients of the quadratic divergences is not enough to produce small physical Higgs masses, and the natural expectation is in the 800 GeV range (cruiserweight) for f \sim 2 TeV. We conclude that the littlest Higgs model is a solution of the little hierarchy problem, in the sense that it stabilizes the electroweak symmetry breaking scale to be a factor of 100 less than the cutoff of the theory, but this requires a quite large physical mass for the Higgs, and hence precision electroweak studies should be redone accordingly. We also study finite temperature corrections.
Bazzocchi Federica
Fabbrichesi Marco
Piai Maurizio
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