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arxiv: 0906.5207 · v2 · submitted 2009-06-29 · ✦ hep-ph

Electroweak two-loop contribution to the mass splitting within a new heavy SU(2)_L fermion multiplet

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keywords massmultipletelectroweakheavysplittingtwo-loopcontributionfermion
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New heavy particles in an SU(2)_L multiplet, sometimes introduced in extensions of the standard model, have highly degenerate tree-level mass M if their couplings to the Higgs bosons are very small or forbidden. However, loop corrections may generate the gauge-symmetry-breaking mass splitting within the multiplet, which does not vanish in the large M limit due to the threshold singularity. We calculate the electroweak contribution to the mass splitting for a heavy fermion multiplet, to the two-loop order. Numerically, two-loop electroweak contributions are typically O(MeV).

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