2014/09/28 by D. Demir, Durmus Ali Demir, Canan Karahan +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark matter #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Hidden sector #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Mathematical physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quadratic equation #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Vector boson #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.038
published as Physics Letters B740 (2015) 46-50 · 5pp, 1 fig. Improved exposition, rectified concurrency to broken and unbroken electroweak vacua, added references
arxiv created 2014/09/28 · openalex publication_date 2014/11/22 · arxiv updated 2014/12/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Here we show that, a hidden vector field whose gauge invariance is ensured by a Stueckelberg scalar and whose mass is spontaneously generated by the Standard Model Higgs field contributes to quadratic divergences in the Higgs boson mass squared, and even leads to its cancellation at one-loop when Higgs coupling to gauge field is fine-tuned. In contrast to mechanisms based on hidden scalars where a complete cancellation cannot be achieved, stabilization here is complete in that the hidden vector and the accompanying Stueckelberg scalar are both free from quadratic divergences at one-loop. This stability, deriving from hidden exact gauge invariance, can have important implications for modeling dark phenomena like dark matter, dark energy, dark photon and neutrino masses. The hidden fields can be produced at the LHC.