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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Radiative electroweak symmetry breaking revisited
V Elias1, R B Mann, D G C McKeon
1Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 35 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2J 2W9.
Abstract:
In the absence of a tree-level scalar-field mass, renormalization-group methods permit the explicit summation of leading-logarithm contributions to all orders of the perturbative series within the effective potential for SU(2)xU(1) electroweak symmetry. This improvement of the effective potential function is seen to reduce residual dependence on the renormalization mass scale. The all-orders summation of leading-logarithm terms involving the dominant three couplings contributing to radiative corrections is suggestive of a potential characterized by a plausible Higgs boson mass of 216 GeV. However, the tree potential's local minimum at phi=0 is restored if QCD is sufficiently strong.
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