Electroweak renormalization based on gauge-invariant vacuum expectation values of non-linear Higgs representations. Part II. Extended Higgs sectors

A recently proposed scheme for a gauge-invariant treatment of tadpole corrections in spontaneously broken gauge theories — called Gauge-Invariant Vacuum expectation value Scheme (GIVS) — is applied to a singlet Higgs extension of the Standard Model and to the Two-Higgs Doublet Model. In contrast to previously used tadpole schemes, the GIVS unifies the gauge-invariance property with perturbative stability. For the Standard Model this was demonstrated for the conversion between on-shell and MS renormalized masses, where the GIVS leads to very moderate, gauge-independent electroweak corrections. In models with extended scalar sectors, issues with tadpole renormalization exist if Higgs mixing angles are renormalized with MS conditions, which is the major subject of this article. In detail, we first formulate non-linear representations of the extended scalar sectors, which is an interesting subject in its own right. Then we formulate the GIVS which employs these non-linear representations in the calculation of the tadpole renormalization constants, while actual higher-order calculations in the GIVS proceed in linear representations as usual. Finally, for the considered models we discuss the next-to-leading-order (electroweak and QCD) corrections to the decay processes h / H → WW / ZZ → 4 fermions of the CP-even neutral Higgs bosons h and H using MS -renormalized Higgs mixing angles with the GIVS and previously used tadpole treatments.