Published May 1, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Flat Higgs potential from Planck scale supersymmetry breaking

  • 1. ICRR, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8582 (Japan)
  • 2. IPMU, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8568 (Japan)

Description

The observed Higgs boson mass poses a new puzzle in addition to the longstanding problem of the origin of the electroweak scale; the shallowness of the Higgs potential. The Higgs quartic coupling even seems to vanish at around the Planck scale within the uncertainties of the top quark mass and the strong gauge coupling. We show that the shallowness of the Higgs potential might be an outcome of supersymmetry breaking at around the Planck scale. There, the electroweak fine-tuning in the Higgs quadratic terms leads to an almost vanishing quartic coupling at around the Planck scale.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.041

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.041;
arXiv
arXiv:1312.7108v2;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00197-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
732
Journal Issue
Complete
Journal Page Range
p. 214-217
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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