https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14109-0
Regular Article
On exact minimization of Higgs potentials
1
Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán, Chile
2
Dept of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 27695-8205, Raleigh, NC, USA
* e-mail: maniatis@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
Received:
11
March
2014
Revised:
8
April
2014
Accepted:
23
April
2014
Published online:
3
June
2014
Minimizing the Higgs potential is an essential task in any model involving Higgs bosons. Exact minimization methods proposed in the literature are based on the polynomial form of the potential. These methods will in general no longer work if loop contributions to the potential are taken into account. We present a method to keep the tree level global minimum unchanged in passing to the effective potential. We illustrate the method for the case of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM).
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