Higgs Boson Mass Bounds in Seesaw Extended Standard Model with Non-Minimal Gravitational Coupling

Abstract

In the presence of non-minimal gravitational coupling $\xi H^{†}H\mathcal{R}$ between the standard model (SM) Higgs doublet $H$ and the curvature scalar $\mathcal{R}$, the effective ultraviolet cutoff scale is given by ${\Lambda }_{\mathrm{cut}}\approx m_P/\xi$, where $m_P$ is the reduced Planck mass, and $\xi \gtrsim 1$ is a dimensionless coupling constant. In type I and type III seesaw extended SM, which can naturally explain the observed solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations, we investigate the implications of this non-minimal gravitational coupling for the SM Higgs boson mass bounds based on vacuum stability and perturbativity arguments. A lower bound on the Higgs boson mass close to 120 GeV is realized with type III seesaw and $\xi \sim 10-10^3$.

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures; added references