Noncommutative approach to disclose a Higgs group
M. A. De Andrade, C. Neves

TL;DR
This paper introduces a noncommutative framework for a global O(N) scalar field theory, revealing how noncommutativity influences spontaneous symmetry breaking and predicting a Higgs group with at most two Higgs bosons, with specific mass scenarios.
Contribution
It proposes a noncommutative version of scalar field theory and explores its impact on Higgs boson mass predictions and symmetry breaking mechanisms.
Findings
Noncommutativity affects spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Possible Higgs group with up to two Higgs bosons.
Predicted mass scenarios include near 125 GeV and 750 GeV/2 TeV.
Abstract
A noncommutative(NC) version for a global scalar field theory is proposed and an alternative investigation about how noncommutative drives spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is explored. Indeed, we show that the noncommutativity plays an important role in such mechanism, i.e., it is possible to show that there is a Higgs group with no more than two Higgs bosons. In this scenario, we establish two mutually exclusive options: one Higgs boson with mass at 125 GeV and other at 750 GeV -- 2 TeV excess does not imply a 2 TeV mass resonance -- or two Higgs bosons with mass-degenerate near 125~GeV, where 2 TeV and 750 GeV excesses do not imply a 2 TeV and 750 GeV masses resonance.
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TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
††institutetext: Departamento de Matemática, Física e Computação, Faculdade de Tecnologia,
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
Rodovia Presidente Dutra, Km 298, Pólo Industrial, CEP 27537-000, Resende-RJ, Brazil.
Noncommutative approach to disclose a Higgs group
M. A. De Andrade
and C. Neves
Abstract
A noncommutative(NC) version for a global scalar field theory is proposed and an alternative investigation about how noncommutative drives spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is explored. Indeed, we show that the noncommutativity plays an important role in such mechanism, i.e., it is possible to show that there is a Higgs group with no more than two Higgs bosons. In this scenario, we establish two mutually exclusive options: one Higgs boson with mass at 125 GeV and other at 750 GeV – 2 TeV excess does not imply a 2 TeV mass resonance – or two Higgs bosons with mass-degenerate near 125 GeV, where 2 TeV and 750 GeV excesses do not imply a 2 TeV and 750 GeV masses resonance.
Keywords:
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Higgs boson, Noncommutative Theory.
1 Introduction
Recently, we propose an alternative method to induce noncommutativity into a commutative theory – Noncommutative MappingMACN –, where it was possible to setup different NC algebra with NC parameters into a -dimensional system. Therefore, it allowed us to explore different contributions related to the noncommutativity. This result driven us to generalize the -productwigner ; HG ; MOYAL ; mezincescu . Further, it was also shown that different NC algebra among the phase-space coordinates origins different NC system and that the mass and charge are now NC parametrized. In another articleMACN1 , it was shown that the NC parameter plays the role of the viscous damping coefficient in the damped harmonic oscillator(DHO) and, among other things, the Noncommutative Mapping was applied in the global scalar field theory, where the presence of damping feature was revealed and it was also discussed the relations among bosonic string attached to a 3D-brane, DHO, 2D-NC oscillator harmonic and NC scalar field theory. More recently, we have been revealingMACN2 how spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and Higgs-Kibble mechanism are driven by the noncommutativity and it was explored not only to explain, in an alternative way, the mass-degenerate Higgs bosons near 125 GeV, but also to see how the Higgs-Kibble mechanism changes in order to generate a NC dependent mass to the gauge fields.
CMScms1 ; cms2 ; cms3 and ATLASatlas1 collaboration have reported several excesses 2 TeV in the dijet invariant mass spectrum of 20.3 at = 8TeV, for example: the ATLAS collaboration has reported that a 3.4, 2.6 and 2.9 deviation are observed 2 TeV in the invariant mass distribution of boosted WZ, WW and ZZ, where the global significance of the discrepancy in the WZ channel is 2.5; the CMS experiment reported a moderate excess, 1.4 for the dijet resonances, where the W- and Z-tagged jets are indistinguishable; CMS experiment reported a 2 excess at 1.8 TeV in the dijet resonance channel search. In this scenario, there are several papersCacciapaglia ; Carmona ; Gao ; Cao2 ; Cheung ; Abe ; Sanz ; Thamm ; Anchordoqui ; Omura ; Chen ; Chiang ; Dobrescu1 ; Brehmer ; Dobrescu2 ; Hisano ; Chao3 explaining this diboson excesses at 1.8 2 TeV.
In 2015, with the LHC Run II – ATLAS atlas2 and CMScms4 –, an accumulated luminosity of 3 fb*-1* at =13 TeV showed a hint of a new particle at 750 GeV decaying into a photon pair. Despite of the 750 GeV excess may not involve a broad resonance with a mass near 750 GeVCho ; JBCS , there are many ways to interpret the 750 GeV excess as being a 750 GeV mass resonance, for example: in the framework of a single new scalar particleFranceschini , by singlets coupled to vector-like fermions butazzo ; sdm ; ellis ; knapen ; Kobakhidze ; Falkowski ; Chao1 ; Huang ; Chakrabortty ; Cao1 ; Dhuria ; Blas ; Murphy ; Ding ; Boucenna ; Alves ; Chao2 , composite states Harigaya ; Low ; Molinaro ; No ; Nakai ; Bian ; Chiara ; Heckman ; Matsuzaki ; Hernandez , reduction of extra dimensions Cox ; Ahmed , axionsPilaftsis ; Higaki or sgoldstinosPetersson ; Demidov ; Bellazzini . Further, some authors start to explore a possible link of this new resonance to a dark matter particle Mambrini ; Backovic ; Barducci ; Dev ; Dey ; Bi ; Bauer . Besides of all of this, we also find in the literature some articles where the authors assume that the 750 GeV diphoton excess is due to new Higgs boson(s) in Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM)georgi ; Chanowitz ; Branco ; KKHL ; Angelescu ; Bertuzzo ; Han ; MB .
Inspired by the 2HDM idea and by the NC contributions in mass-degenerate Higgs bosonsMACN2 , we propose to disclose a Higgs boson group from the NC point of view. This work is organized as follows. In section 2, we explore Noncommutative MappingMACN in field theory. In order to get this, a simple global scalar theory is initially considered and, after that, we propose an ansatz that allows us to get a particular NC version for scalar field theory. In section 3, a global scalar field theory, with an internal symmetry group, is considered and, similarly to what was done in section 2, a NC version field theory is obtained and the contribution of noncommutativity in the spontaneous symmetry breakdown mechanismnambu ; goldstone ; lasinio1 ; lasinio2 ; higgs1 ; higgs2 ; kibble ; gsw ; IZ ; TL ; kaku ; ryder might be properly explored: we show that there is a Higgs group with only two Higgs bosons, where they can be interpreted as being the one with mass equal to 125 GeV and the other with 750 GeV – there is no room to accomodate the 2TeV excess – or two Higgs bosons with mass-degenerate near 125 GeV, where 2 TeV and 750 GeV excesses do not imply a 2 TeV and 750 GeV masses resonance. At the end, some conclusions are presented.
2 NC scalar field theory
In order to investigate the contribution of noncommutativity in the context of field theory, a simplest scalar field in four space-time dimensions is considered, namely, a global scalar field theory, whose its dynamics is governed by
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where is a positive number, can be either positive or negative and the field transforms as an -vector. The corresponding Hamiltonian is
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with the following potential
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It is well know that if , then the vacuum is at and the symmetry is manifest, and is the mass of the scalar modes. On the other hand, if , there is a new vacuum solution given by , which has an infinite number of possible vacua.
In the commutative framework, the symplectic variables are and the symplectic matrix is
[TABLE]
The noncommutativity is introduced into the model changing the brackets among the phase-space variables, given by
[TABLE]
where the time-dependent antisymmetric quantity, , embraces the noncommutativity. These brackets are comprised by the symplectic matrix in NC basis, namely:
[TABLE]
The NC transformation matrixMACN , \leavevmode\nobreak\ R=\sqrt{\widetilde{f}\,f^{-1}}\leavevmode\nobreak\, is written as
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Since the commutative symplectic variables change to the NC ones through it follows that
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In agreement with the NC MappingMACN the NC first-order Lagrangian can be read as
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where and the latter one is the NC version of the Hamiltonian, Eq.(2), given by
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The Hamiltonian density above, with the help of Eq.(8), renders to
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where
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Observe that the original model is restored when is a null quantity. Occasionally, energy density might be written as being the sum of kinetic and potential energycoleman ,
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where, in the Eq.(11), is the two first term and , as usual, is the term involving no time derivatives, namely,
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As a consequence, if the energy is to be bounded below, must be also bounded below.
The Hamilton’s equation of motion is calculated and the canonical momenta is obtained as being
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Inserting Eq.(11), with Eq.(12), and Eq.(15) into the NC first-order Lagrangian in Eq.(9), we get the NC second-order Lagrangian
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with the time-like vector , which is a normal vector of a noncovariant set of equitemporal surfaces ( = constant) where the Hamiltonian analysis is implemented. However, this noncovariance is apparent, because if we consider a larger set of space-like surfaces to develop the Hamiltonian formalism, this obstruction can be removed111This observation is well clarified by one of us in the appendix A of Ref.WN . From this point of view, appear as a set of Lagrange multipliers that imposes the velocity dependent constraint . As pointed out by some authorsBST ; BHZ ; WuZee , a Lagrangian, first-order in velocity , can always be considered as arising from a background potential in configuration space. At this point, we would like to point out that the middle term of the right hand side of this NC Lagrangian plays the role of damped termMACN1 .
In order to investigate how the noncommutativity drives the spontaneous symmetry breaking and Higgs-Kibble mechanism, we assume the dimension of the internal group as being , and consider the following ansatz,
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where could be a constant or a time-dependent parameter, and are the elements of a constant antisymmetric matrix . For , we have , where is the antisymmetric matrix with and, consequently, the ansatz renders to
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For , the matrix is given by
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where
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Due to this, we get
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with . At this moment, it is important to point out that there are alternative choices for the NC -parameter, Eq.(17), and that each choice generates a different result, which gives room to explore new features.
Implementing the result, given in Eq.(21), into the potential, given in Eq.(12), we get
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with . Note that the original mass can now be tuned by the NC -parameter.
Further, we can also consider, from the beginning, that . In this scenario, the NC potential, Eq.(22), renders to
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while the NC Lagrangian, Eq.(16), reduces to
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At this point, we would like to point out that is a positive definite parameter from the beginning, i.e., .
3 Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Let us now examine a simple example given by the global O(4) scalar theory with an internal symmetry group, where transform as a 4-vector and :
[TABLE]
where is a positive number and can be either positive or negative. The corresponding Hamiltonian is
[TABLE]
with the following potential
[TABLE]
In the commutative framework, the symplectic variables are and the symplectic matrix is
[TABLE]
The noncommutativity is introduced into the model changing the brackets among the phase-space variables, given by
[TABLE]
where antisymmetric matrix, , embraces the noncommutativity. These brackets are comprised by the symplectic matrix in NC basis, namely:
[TABLE]
The NC transformation matrixMACN , \leavevmode\nobreak\ R=\sqrt{\widetilde{f}\,f^{-1}}\leavevmode\nobreak\, is written as
[TABLE]
For , the matrix is given by
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
Since the commutative symplectic variables change to the NC ones through it follows that
[TABLE]
In agreement with the NC MappingMACN the NC first-order Lagrangian can be read as
[TABLE]
As and is the NC version of the Hamiltonian, Eq.(26), becomes
[TABLE]
the Hamiltonian density , with the help of Eq.(38), renders to
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
with
[TABLE]
The Hamilton’s equation of motion is calculated and the canonical momenta is obtained as being
[TABLE]
Inserting Eq.(41), with Eq.(43), and Eq.(44) into the field version of the NC Lagrangian given in Eq.(39), the NC second-order Lagrangian is obtained, namely
[TABLE]
Since each two scalar fields can be combined into each single complex scalar field, we write
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
is a doublet representation of with an internal symmetry group. The Lagrangian, given in Eq.(45), renders to
[TABLE]
and applying the usual Legendre transformation, the Hamiltonian is computed and it is given by
[TABLE]
where the potential is
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The potential is minimal at
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where
[TABLE]
A possible solution is
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Then, the field has a charge , while has a null charge, i.e., . From the second equation given in Eq.(3), we get
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An educated guess solution is
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At this point, we would like to point out that the internal symmetry spontaneously breakdown, in an analogous way to what it happens to symmetry group.
The doublet obeys the transformation property
[TABLE]
with
[TABLE]
as a constant doublet.
We can reparametrize in the following way:
[TABLE]
with and as real fields and where are the SU(2) group generators. With this parametrization it is apparent that the fields can be transformed always by a gauge transformation, as in the case of the Abelian Higgs model. This choice, which is called the unitary gauge, is perfectly adequate for calculations in the semi-classical limit. However, it must be abandoned beyond this limit. Here we will set = 0 and, consequently, the reparametrization above reduces to
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Inserting the equation above into Eq.(50), we get
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Inserting Eq.(3) into the equation above, we get
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which allows us to infer that the Higgs scalar doublet has a squared masses:
[TABLE]
where , and . Here, and can be interpreted, respectively, as being the Higgs boson with mass equal to 125 GeV and 750 GeV.
Now, consider another educated guess solution for Eq.(3), given by
[TABLE]
the Higgs scalar doublet has a squared masses:
[TABLE]
This result can be interpreted in a two distinct and mutually exclusive way: first, can be interpreted as being the Higgs boson with mass equal to 125 GeV and can be settle in order to get as being the Higgs boson near 125 GeV, i.e., the mass-degenerate Higgs bosons near 125 GeVMACN2 ; MH2 ; MH3 ; MH4 ; MH5 ; MH6 ; MH7 can be explained and the 750 GeV excess does not imply a 750 GeV mass resonance; second, can be interpreted as being the Higgs boson with mass equal to 750 GeV and can be settle in order to get as being the Higgs boson at 125 GeV.
Another educated guess solution for Eq.(3) is
[TABLE]
This hypothesis allows us to infer that the Higgs scalar doublet has the same following squared masses, given by
[TABLE]
Here, and can be interpreted as being two Higgs boson with 125 GeV and, due to some kind of an interaction among them, the mass-degenerate Higgs bosons near 125 GeVMACN2 ; MH2 ; MH3 ; MH4 ; MH5 ; MH6 ; MH7 might appear.
Further, we can also propose a general solution for Eq.(3),
[TABLE]
with
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Inserting Eq.(3) into Eq.(3), we get
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The coefficients of must be non-null and positive, then
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The sum of the two equations above is given by
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Inserting Eq.(3) into the equation above, we get
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Note that the Higgs group has two fields and there is a restrain between the NC -parameter and the mass mode.
Another possible discussion arises when the index group is enlarged, i.e., . In this context, Eq.(3) changes to
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and the potential, Eq.(3), reduces to
[TABLE]
An educated guess solution for Eq.(3) is
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with
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Inserting these solution on Eq.(80), we get
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The coefficients of must be non-null and negative, then the parameters is bounded below, . This constrain together to the relation given in Eq.(82) lead us to conclude that the solution set for is the null set. Therefore, the symmetry does not spontaneously break and, consequently, it is not possible to have a doublet representation, with an internal symmetry group, with , which embraces three Higgs bosons, at least in the NC approach. The later procedure can be applied in a doublet representation, with an internal symmetry group, with and, in an analogously way to what was done for with , we can conclude that the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism is obliterated, consequently, it does not exist a Higgs group with more than two Higgs bosons.
On the other hand, a general educated guess solution for Eq.(3) is
[TABLE]
with
[TABLE]
Inserting these solution on Eq.(80), we get
[TABLE]
The coefficients of must be non-null and positive, then
[TABLE]
The sum of the three equations above is given by
[TABLE]
Inserting Eq.(3) into the equation above, we get the following statement: . Therefore, the existence of a Higgs group with a third field is not possible. If the previous procedure is applied, in an analogous way what was done for , in a model with the same result is obtained and, consequently, it was demonstrated, from a NC point of view, that there is no room to accommodate in the Higgs group more than two Higgs fields.
At this point, we would like to stress that the contribution of noncommutativity into the Higgs-Kibble mechanism, which is VEV dependent, was investigated in a previous workMACN2 .
4 Conclusion
We would like to point out that the NC -parameter affects the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, vide section 3, in an astonishing way due to the doublet representation of with an internal symmetry group, . Here, it was revealed that, when the spontaneous symmetry is breakdown, the NC -parameter changes the energy vacuum such that can be reparametrized, vide Eq.(59), which drives us to establish the following conclusion: for a doublet representation of with an internal symmetry group, where , the spontaneous symmetry breakdown mechanism is obliterated and, consequently, there is a Higgs group with only two Higgs bosons. In this scenario, we argue that the 2 TeV excess does not imply a 2 TeV mass resonance and, also, we can interpret these two Higgs bosons, with a NC dependent mass, in the following way: (1) from Eq.(3) we get two Higgs bosons, one at 125 GeV and other at 750 Gev; (2) from Eq.(3) and Eq.(72) the Higgs group presents mass-degenerate Higgs bosons near 125 GeV and, consequently, 750 GeV excess does not imply a 750 GeV mass resonance.
Acknowledgments
C. Neves and M. A. De Andrade thank to Brazilian Research Agencies(CNPq and FAPERJ) for partial financial support. Further, we would like to thank Bruno Fernando Inchausp Teixeira for a careful reading of the manuscript.
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