文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Fate of the false vacuum in a singlet-doublet fermion extension model with RG-improved effective action

作者：Cheng, Yu[1];Liao, Wei[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Sci, Inst Modern Phys, 130 Meilong Rd, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2020

卷号：101

期号：5

外文期刊名：PHYSICAL REVIEW D

收录：;WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000522163200011)】；

基金：This work is supported by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 11875130.

语种：英文

摘要：We study the effective potential and the renormalization group (RG) improvement to the effective potential of a Higgs boson in a singlet-doublet fermion dark matter extension of the Standard Model (SM), and in general singlet-doublet fermion extension models with several copies of doublet fermions or singlet fermions. We study the stability of the electroweak vacuum with the RG-improved effective potential in these models beyond the SM. We study the decay of the electroweak vacuum using the RG-improved effective potential in these models beyond the SM. In this study we consider the quantum correction to the kinetic term in the effective action and consider the RG improvement of the kinetic term. Combining all these effects, we find that the decay rate of the false vacuum is slightly changed when calculated using the RG-improved effective action in the singlet-doublet fermion dark matter model. In general singlet-doublet fermion extension models, we find that the presence of several copies of doublet fermions can make the electroweak vacuum stable if the new Yukawa couplings are not large. If the new Yukawa couplings are large, the electroweak vacuum can be turned into metastable or unstable again by the presence of extra fermions.