Radiative Corrections to Triple Higgs Coupling and Electroweak Phase Transition: Beyond One-loop Analysis

Abstract

We evaluate dominant two-loop corrections to the triple Higgs coupling and strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition in the inert Higgs doublet model. It is found that sunset diagrams can predominantly enhance the former and reduce the latter. As a result, the triple Higgs coupling normalized by the standard model value at two-loop level is more enhanced than the corresponding one-loop value.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures; v2: updated to match version published in PRD