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We investigate the stability of Higgs potential in inverse seesaw models. We derive the full two-loop RGEs of the relevant parameters, such as the quartic Higgs self-coupling, taking thresholds into account. We find that for relatively large Yukawa couplings the Higgs quartic self-coupling goes negative well below the Standard Model instability scale ∼ 1010 GeV. We show, however, that the “dynamical” inverse seesaw with spontaneous lepton number violation can lead to a completely consistent and stable Higgs vacuum up to the Planck scale.
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Mandal, S., Srivastava, R. & Valle, J.W.F. Electroweak symmetry breaking in the inverse seesaw mechanism. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 212 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)212
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