Fate of false vacuum in singlet-doublet fermion extension model with RG improved effective action

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability and decay of the electroweak vacuum in singlet-doublet fermion extension models of the Standard Model, incorporating RG improvement and quantum corrections to the effective potential and kinetic terms.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of vacuum stability in singlet-doublet fermion models with RG improved effective action, including quantum corrections to kinetic terms.

Findings

Decay rate of false vacuum slightly affected by RG improvement.

Multiple doublet fermions can stabilize the vacuum if Yukawa couplings are small.

Large Yukawa couplings can destabilize the vacuum even with extra fermions.

Abstract

We study the effective potential and the Renormalization Group(RG) improvement to the effective potential of 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.