Two-loop Higgs mass in supersymmetric Kaluza–Klein theories☆

Abstract We perform an explicit two-loop computation of the Higgs mass in a five-dimensional supersymmetric theory compactified on the orbifold S 1 / Z 2 , with superpotential localized on a fixed-point brane and supersymmetry broken in the bulk of the extra dimension by Scherk–Schwarz boundary conditions. At one-loop, the Higgs mass is finite and proportional to 1/R 2 , R being the radius of the extra dimension. The two-loop corrections contain finite ( ∝1/R 2 ) and linearly divergent (∝Λ/R) terms, where Λ is the cutoff of the five-dimensional theory. The divergent terms are cancelled by diagrams containing one-loop wave-function renormalization counterterms, i.e., by linear threshold effects of Yukawa (and gauge) couplings, at the scale 1/R. As a result there is no counterterm for the Higgs mass, which is finite and calculable to the considered order.