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Towards an asymptotic-safety scenario for chiral Yukawa systems

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We search for asymptotic safety in a Yukawa system with a chiral U(N L)L  ⊗ U(1)R symmetry, serving as a toy model for the standard-model Higgs sector. Using the functional RG as a nonperturbative tool, the leading-order derivative expansion exhibits admissible non-Gaußian fixed points for 1≤N L≤57 which arise from a conformal threshold behavior induced by self-balanced boson-fermion fluctuations. If present in the full theory, the fixed point would solve the triviality problem. Moreover, as one fixed point has only one relevant direction even with a reduced hierarchy problem, the Higgs mass as well as the top mass are a prediction of the theory in terms of the Higgs vacuum expectation value. In our toy model, the fixed point is destabilized at higher order due to massless Goldstone and fermion fluctuations, which are particular to our model and have no analogue in the standard model.

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    Holger Gies, Stefan Rechenberger & Michael M. Scherer

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Gies, H., Rechenberger, S. & Scherer, M.M. Towards an asymptotic-safety scenario for chiral Yukawa systems. Eur. Phys. J. C 66, 403–418 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1257-y

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