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S-22 - Buttazzo et al. 2013, Investigating the near-criticality of the Higgs boson

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type
source
id
S-22
source_type
journal-article
url
https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3536
venue
Journal of High Energy Physics
publication_date
2013
citation_count
unknown
citation_count_asof
2026-07-21
field
particle phenomenology
authors
  • Dario Buttazzo
  • Giuseppe Degrassi
  • Pier Paolo Giardino
  • Gian F. Giudice
  • Filippo Sala
  • Alberto Salvio
  • Alessandro Strumia
found_via
query (post-Higgs-discovery metastability computation search)
motivatedness
none known
trust_score
0.85
trust_reason
state-of-the-art full 2-loop NNLO matching + 3-loop NNLO RGE by a leading group, resting on measured Higgs/top/gauge inputs; independently corroborated by the parallel Degrassi et al. computation and 1604 citations — calculation is reliable, residual from top-mass systematic uncertainty
usefulness
2.5
usefulness_reason
sharpens exactly how close the measured SM sits to the metastability boundary — the key number the vacuum-decay danger route needs, though it does not address whether the LHC could trigger decay
method_read
full 2-loop NNLO extraction of quartic + top Yukawa, 3-loop RGE running; rigorous and reproduced
standing
JHEP; 1604 citations as of 2026-07-21; corroborated by an independent parallel computation (Degrassi et al.)
angle
vacuum-decay-theory
combined_score
0.25
curated
false
curation_reason
not curated: positive combined but outside the rank-25 cut.
data_basis

Full 2-loop NNLO extraction of the Higgs quartic coupling, top Yukawa, and gauge couplings from data; shows the measured parameters sit remarkably close to the metastability/stability boundary (“near-criticality”) and refines the vacuum-decay-rate/lifetime estimate accordingly. relevance_note: sharpens how close the measured Standard Model parameters sit to the instability boundary — the key number any “is the vacuum a live danger” argument needs.

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