Gravitational effects on vanishing Higgs potential at the Planck scale

Naoyuki Haba, Kunio Kaneta, Ryo Takahashi, Yuya Yamaguchi

Published 2014-08-24Version 1

We investigate gravitational effects on so-called multiple point criticality principle (MPCP) at the Planck scale. The MPCP requires two degenerate vacua, whose necessary conditions are expressed by vanishing Higgs quartic coupling ($\lambda(M_{\rm Pl})=0$) and vanishing its $\beta$-function ($\beta_\lambda(M_{\rm Pl})=0$). In order to satisfy the conditions, we find that the top pole mass and the Higgs mass should be $170.8\,{\rm GeV} \lesssim M_t\lesssim 171.7\, {\rm GeV}$ and $M_h=125.7\pm0.4\, {\rm GeV}$, respectively, as well as suitable magnitude of gravitational effects (a coefficient of gravitational contribution as $|a_\lambda| > 2$). In this case, however, since the Higgs quartic coupling $\lambda$ becomes negative below the Planck scale, two vacua are not degenerate. We find that $M_h \gtrsim 131.5\, {\rm GeV}$ with $M_t \gtrsim 174\, {\rm GeV}$ is required by the realization of the MPCP. Therefore, the MPCP at the Planck scale cannot be realized in the SM and also the SM with gravity since $M_h \gtrsim 131.5\, {\rm GeV}$ is experimentally ruled out.