Higgs Triplets, Decoupling, and Precision Measurements

TL;DR

This paper examines how Higgs triplet models affect electroweak precision measurements, focusing on renormalization, decoupling behavior, and constraints from data, with implications for beyond Standard Model theories.

Contribution

It clarifies the renormalization scheme for Higgs triplet models and analyzes their decoupling properties and experimental constraints.

Findings

Strong restrictions on Higgs triplet models from perturbativity and electroweak data

Decoupling behavior depends on the scalar triplet mass scale

Implications for Little Higgs and similar models with rho not equal to one

Abstract

Electroweak precision data has been extensively used to constrain models containing physics beyond that of the Standard Model. When the model contains Higgs scalars in representations other than SU(2) singlets or doublets, and hence rho not equal to one at tree level, a correct renormalization scheme requires more inputs than the three needed for the Standard Model. We discuss the connection between the renormalization of models with Higgs triplets and the decoupling properties of the models as the mass scale for the scalar triplet field becomes much larger than the electroweak scale. The requirements of perturbativity of the couplings and agreement with electroweak data place strong restrictions on models with Higgs triplets. Our results have important implications for Little Higgs type models and other models with rho not equal to one at tree level.