The UV sensitivity of the Higgs potential in Gauge–Higgs Unification

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the UV sensitivity of the Higgs effective potential in a Gauge--Higgs Unification (GHU) model. We consider an $SU(\mathcal N)$ GHU on $\mathbf M^4\times S^1$ spacetime with a massless Dirac fermion. In this model, we evaluate the four-Fermi diagrams at the two-loop level and find them to be logarithmically divergent in the dimensional regularization scheme. Moreover, we confirm that their counter-terms contribute to the Higgs effective potential at the four-loop level. This result means that the Higgs effective potential in the GHU depends on UV theories as well as in other non-renormalizable theories.