Electroweak vacuum decay in metric-affine gravity

We investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum in metric-affine gravity in which the Standard Model Higgs boson can be non-minimally coupled to both the Ricci scalar and the Holst invariant. We find that vacuum stability is improved in this framework across a wide range of model parameters.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ioannis D. Gialamas, Hardi Veermäe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269323004434