2024/12/18 by S. Chattopadhyay, Chakraborty, Debsubhra, Chattopadhyay, Susobhan +2 · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · #Stochastic processes and financial applications #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.14155
We present the complete set of positivity bounds on the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) at next-to-leading order (NLO). We identify the 15 operators that can be constrained by positivity, as they contribute to s2-growth in the amplitude for longitudinal gauge-Higgs scattering, that is to all possible 2-to-2 scattering processes involving longitudinal gauge bosons, VL = WL^±, ZL, and the Higgs boson, h. We find two sets of constraints: (i) specific linear combinations of CP-even Wilson coefficients (WCs) must be positive, and (ii) the magnitudes of some WCs -- including all CP-odd ones -- must be smaller than products of other CP-even WCs. We present our final constraints on the 15 dimensional HEFT space and show how known positivity bounds on the 3 dimensional space of dimension 8 SMEFT can be recovered from them. We find that only about 5% of the parameter space for WCs of HEFT operators at NLO complies with these positivity constraints. Additionally, we obtain double-sided bounds on these WCs by fully exploiting the implications of unitarity and st-crossing symmetry. For WCs contributing to the vector boson scattering process our final constraints are in most cases significantly stronger than the experimental ones. For the VL VL, hh → hh and VLVL, hh → VLh process, there are no reported experimental limits and our theoretical constraints provide the first bounds.