The Alternative Left-Right Scenario: Unitarity, Vacuum Stability and RG Evolution

TL;DR

This paper investigates the scalar sector constraints of the Alternative Left-Right Model, combining unitarity, stability, and RG evolution to derive bounds on scalar masses and parameter space for high-energy consistency.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of perturbative unitarity, stability, and RG evolution constraints on the ALRM's scalar sector, resulting in predictive bounds on scalar masses.

Findings

Imposed 14 tree-level unitarity conditions on scalar couplings.

Combined stability, unitarity, and perturbativity constraints significantly restrict parameter space.

Derived upper bounds on scalar masses for a high cutoff scale, e.g., up to 6.5 TeV for certain scalars.

Abstract

We study the theoretical constraints on the scalar sector of the Alternative Left-Right Model (ALRM), an $E_6$-motivated extension of the Standard Model based on the gauge group $\mathrm{SU}(3)_c \otimes \mathrm{SU}(2)_L \otimes \mathrm{SU}(2)_{R'} \otimes \mathrm{U}(1)_{B-L}$, supplemented by a global $\mathrm{U}(1)_S$ symmetry. We derive the complete set of tree-level perturbative unitarity constraints on the model, resulting in 14 independent conditions on the quartic scalar couplings. When combined with the boundedness-from-below conditions and the requirement of positive-definite scalar mass-squared eigenvalues, these constraints are found to be complementary, with their simultaneous imposition yielding significantly more stringent restrictions on the parameter space than either set alone. We then perform a one loop renormalization group analysis, evolving the model parameters from the electroweak scale up to a high energy cut-off scale, and requiring that the vacuum stability, the unitarity, and the perturbativity conditions are preserved throughout. The renormalisation group evolution is found to restrict the allowed parameter space considerably beyond the tree-level bounds, with the constraints on the quartic couplings becoming more stringent as the cut off scale is raised. Consequently, the physical scalar masses in the model acquire upper bounds. For the right-hand symmetry breaking scale, $v_R = 10$ TeV and requiring theoretical consistency up to $10^{16}$ GeV, we obtain $m_{H_1^\pm} \lesssim 6.5$ TeV, $m_{H_2^\pm} \lesssim 1.5$ TeV, and $m_{H_1^0} \simeq m_{A_1} \lesssim 1.3$ TeV, with all bounds scaling with $v_R$. These findings offer a predictive and falsifiable framework for searches of the extended Higgs sector of the ALRM at the current and future collider experiments.