Published March 2014
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Journal article
The role of the top quark in the stability of the SM Higgs potential
Description
I discuss the stability of the SM scalar potential in view of the discovery of a Higgs boson with mass around 125 GeV. The role played by the top quark mass in the choice between the full stability and the metastability conditions is analyzed in detail. The present experimental value of the top mass do not support the possibility that the SM potential is stable up to the Planck scale but favor an electroweak vacuum sufficiently long-lived to be metastable.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuovo Cimento. C (Print)
- Journal Volume
- 37C
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 47-53
- ISSN
- 2037-4909
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 46128141
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN LHC; HIGGS BOSONS; QUARKS; STANDARD MODEL; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS