학술논문

Effective field theory analysis of Higgs naturalness
Document Type
article
Source
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 92(1)
Subject
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Astronomical and Space Sciences
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Quantum Physics
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Language
Abstract
Assuming the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) with a characteristic scale M∼O(10)TeV, we investigate the naturalness of the Higgs sector at scales below M using an effective field theory (EFT) approach. We obtain the complete set of higher-dimensional effective operators (at any dimension n≥5) that give the leading one-loop EFT contributions to the Higgs mass with a Wilsonian-like hard cutoff and discuss the (fine-) tuning between these terms and the SM one-loop contribution, which is required in order to alleviate the little hierarchy problem. We then show that this tuning can be translated into a condition for naturalness in the underlying new physics, a condition we denote by "EFT naturalness" and which we express as constraints on the corresponding higher-dimensional operator coefficients up to the scale of the effective action Λ