Improving the Effective Potential, Multi-Mass Problem and Modified Mass-Dependent Scheme

Abstract

We present a new procedure for improving the effective potential by using renormalization group equation (RGE) in the presence of several mass scales. We propose a modification of the mass-dependent (MD) renormalization scheme, MDbar scheme, so that the scalar mass parameter runs at most logarithmically on the one hand and the decoupling of heavy particles is naturally incorporated in the RGE's on the other. Thanks to these properties, the procedure in MDbar scheme turns out to be very simple compared with the regionwise procedure in MSbar scheme proposed previously. The relation with other schemes is also discussed both analytically and numerically.