Positive definiteness constraints of effective scalar potential in Georgi-Machacek Model

Georgi-Machacek (GM) Model, which extends the Higgs sector of standard model with additional triplets, can preserve the custodial symmetry at tree level and allow large triplet vacuum expectation values of order \(\cal{O}\)(10) GeV. Various theoretical constraints can be imposed on the parameters of the Lagrangian, including the bounded-from-below constraints for the tree-level scalar potential. We propose to go beyond the tree-level bounded-from-below constraints and discuss the positive definiteness constraints for the effective potential of GM model to ensure the non-existence of a deeper vacuum in large field value regions. Based on one-loop renormalization group-improved (RG-improved) effective potential and new positive definite criteria for homogeneous polynomial with multiple variables (which is necessary because of the custodial symmetry breaking effects by loops), we can analyse numerically the positive definiteness constraints for GM model. Our numerical results indicate that the ranges of the quartic couplings allowed by the positive definiteness requirements are quite different from that derived from the tree-level bounded-from-below requirements. Especially, some parameter regions excluded previously by the tree-level bounded-from-below requirements can still satisfy the positive definite requirements with the one-loop RG-improved scalar potential. Besides, a portion of parameter space that can satisfy the tree-level bounded-from-below constraints with EW scale coupling inputs, should in fact be ruled out by the the positive definiteness requirements of the effective potential at large field value regions.