Higgs mass prediction in the MSSM at three-loop level in a pure DR¯ context

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 77; no. 12; pp. 1 - 20
• Main Authors: Harlander, Robert V., Klappert, Jonas, Voigt, Alexander
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Elementary Particles; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Higgs bosons; Loops; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Regular Article - Theoretical Physics; Standard model (particle physics); String Theory
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5368-6

The impact of the three-loop effects of order α t α s 2 on the mass of the light CP-even Higgs boson in the MSSM is studied in a pure DR ¯ context. For this purpose, we implement the results of Kant et al. (JHEP 08:104, 2010 ) into the C++ module Himalaya and link it to FlexibleSUSY, a Mathematica and C++ package to create spectrum generators for BSM models. The three-loop result is compared to the fixed-order two-loop calculations of the original FlexibleSUSY and of FeynHiggs, as well as to the result based on an EFT approach. Aside from the expected reduction of the renormalization scale dependence with respect to the lower-order results, we find that the three-loop contributions significantly reduce the difference from the EFT prediction in the TeV-region of the SUSY scale M S . Himalaya can be linked also to other two-loop DR ¯ codes, thus allowing for the elevation of these codes to the three-loop level.