Abstract
The possible violation of the conventional lower Higgs mass stability bound by the discovered Higgs boson has far reaching consequences within particle physics and cosmology. We discuss the possibility that nonpolynomial bare interactions seeded at some high-momentum scale can considerably diminish the lower Higgs mass bound without introducing a metastability in the Higgs effective potential. For this, we classify various deformations of the usual quartic bare potential regarding their impact on stable IR physics. We perform the analysis in a large N_{mathrm {f}} expansion, addressing the convergence of the obtained results by taking 1/N_{mathrm {f}} corrections into account as well. In addition, we investigate the renormalization group flow of the scalar potential on a nonperturbative level. Within these approximations, we are able to identify bare potentials that lead to Higgs masses below stability mass bounds obtained from finite-order polynomial bare interactions without introducing a metastability in the effective potential.
Highlights
The situation might change once degrees of freedom beyond the standard model enter the RG flow of the Higgs potential
We addressed the impact of nonpolynomial bare interactions on the stability of the Higgs potential and the related lower Higgs mass consistency bound
We found that deviations from the usual polynomial interactions might have the possibility to circumvent the RG arguments which lead to a metastability of the Higgs potential at large field values
Summary
The situation might change once degrees of freedom beyond the standard model enter the RG flow of the Higgs potential. In the spirit of effective field theories, the yet unknown degrees of freedom beyond the standard model can be parametrized by higher-dimensional operators in order to perform model-independent analyses. These higher-dimensional operators are generically generated by the underlying structure of the standard model and can influence the RG running in various ways. As the conventional stability bound is usually associated with a vanishing quartic Higgs coupling at some UV scale, it is useful to introduce a new lower consistency bound for the mass of the Higgs once higher-dimensional operators are
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