Decoupling effects in the running of the Cosmological Constant
Pre-published on:
November 16, 2017
Published on:
March 20, 2018
Abstract
We study the decoupling effects associated with heavy particles in the renormalization group running of the vacuum energy in a mass-dependent renormalization scheme. We nd the running of the vacuum energy stemming from the Higgs condensate in the entire energy range and show that it behaves as expected from the simple dimensional arguments meaning that it exhibits the quadratic sensitivity to the mass of the heavy particles in the infrared regime. The consequence of such a running to the ne-tuning problem with the measured value of the Cosmological Constant is analyzed and the constraint on the mass spectrum of a given model is derived. This netuning constraint is not satised in the Standard Model (SM) while in the massless theories it formally coincides with the well known Veltman condition. We also provide a remarkably simple extension of the SM where saturation of this constraint enables us to predict the radiative Higgs mass correctly. Generalization to constant curvature spaces is also given.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.314.0043
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