Renormalization of the multi-Higgs-doublet Standard Model and one-loop lepton mass corrections

Motivated by models for neutrino masses and lepton mixing, we consider the renormalization of the lepton sector of a general multi-Higgs-doublet Standard Model with an arbitrary number of right-handed neutrino singlets. We propose to make the theory finite by $\overline{\mbox{MS}}$ renormalization of the parameters of the unbroken theory. However, using a general $R_\xi$ gauge, in the explicit one-loop computations of one-point and two-point functions it becomes clear that---in addition---a renormalization of the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) is necessary. Moreover, in order to ensure vanishing one-point functions of the physical scalar mass eigenfields, finite shifts of the tree-level VEVs, induced by the finite parts of the tadpole diagrams, are required. As a consequence of our renormalization scheme, physical masses are functions of the renormalized parameters and VEVs and thus derived quantities. Applying our scheme to one-loop corrections of lepton masses, we perform a thorough discussion of finiteness and $\xi$-independence. In the latter context, the tadpole contributions figure prominently.


Introduction
In this paper we propose a renormalization scheme for the multi-Higgs-doublet Standard Model (mHDSM). We are motivated by models for neutrino masses and lepton mixing, which all have an extended scalar sector. In the simplest cases, they have several Higgs doublets and a number of right-handed neutrino gauge singlet fields and permit in this way to incorporate the seesaw mechanism [1,2,3,4,5].
Our framework is the following. We consider the lepton sector 1 of an extended Standard Model (SM), comprising n L = 3 left-handed lepton gauge doublets, 2 n R right-handed neutrino gauge singlet fields and n H Higgs doublets. We assume n R ≥ 1 and n H ≥ 1, but otherwise these numbers are arbitrary. We furthermore postulate that spontaneous gauge-symmetry breaking in the mHDSM happens in the same way as in the SM, i.e. the SM gauge group is broken down to U(1) em . We do not discuss conditions on the scalar potential V (φ) which make this symmetry breaking possible. Though above we have mentioned the seesaw mechanism, in the renormalization of the mHDSM we do not assume anything about the scale of the right-handed neutrino masses; our setting is completely general with respect to fermion mass scales, but the seesaw mechanism is included. One-loop corrections to the seesaw mechanism have been computed earlier in [6,7,8] (see also [9,10]) and at the end of the present paper we will comment on the relationship between our renormalization scheme here and the radiative corrections of ref. [8].
Before we lay out the renormalization scheme, we have to discuss some of our notation. For the precise definitions of the parameters of the Lagrangian we refer the reader to section 2. We choose positive gauge coupling constants g and g ′ of SU(2) L and U(1) Y , respectively, and thus the sine and cosine of the Weinberg angle, s w and c w , respectively, are positive as well. 3 In the discussion in the present paper we do not need to renormalize g and g ′ . We will always use renormalized parameters of the Lagrangian; these include the Yukawa coupling matrices ∆ k and Γ k (k = 1, . . . , n H ), the parameters of the scalar potential V (φ), µ 2 ij and λ ijkl , and the Majorana mass matrix M R of the right-handed neutrino singlets. The corresponding counterterm parameters are denoted by δ∆ k , δΓ k , δµ 2 ij , δλ ijkl and δM R . The vacuum expectation values v k (VEVs) are in the notation of our paper pure tree-level quantities, in principle expressible in terms of µ 2 ij and λ ijkl by finding the minimum of the (tree level) scalar potential V (φ), written in terms of the renormalized parameters.
We will work in the R ξ or t' Hooft gauge [14,15,16] with general parameters ξ in almost all our computations 4 and use dimensional regularization in the one-loop computations. We will not go beyond the one-loop level.
Physically, only the spontaneously broken mHDSM makes sense, because otherwise all fermions and vector bosons would be massless. The renormalization scheme for the broken theory we propose consists of MS renormalization of the parameters of the unbroken theory plus a VEV renormalization with renormalization parameters δv k . That the latter is necessary in a gauge theory quantized in an R ξ gauge with ξ = 0 has been proven in [17]. Note that this δv k is a renormalization in addition to the scalar wave-function renormalization already included in the VEVs v k . Complying with our proposed renormalization scheme, we use dimensional regularization in d = 4 − ε dimensions. Therefore, at one-loop order the renormalization parameters δ∆ k , δΓ k , δµ 2 ij , δλ ijkl , δM R and δv k are all proportional to (Note that in the present paper we use the symbol "δ" solely for the purpose of indicating quantities proportional to c ∞ .) We will show that the proposed scheme, with counterterms induced by renormalization parameters listed here, allows to remove all divergences at the one-loop level and that the divergences uniquely determine the counterterm parameters. Previously, avoiding the intricacies of gauge theories, this very fact has been demonstrated in [18] for a general Yukawa model with an arbitrary number of real scalars. (For an early attempt with only one scalar see [19].) In detail, we proceed as follows: 1. We determine δλ ijkl + δλ ilkj from the divergence of the neutral-scalar four-point function of the unbroken theory. 5 2. Plugging δλ ijkl + δλ ilkj into the counterterm of the scalar two-point function of the broken phase, the remaining divergencies uniquely fix δµ 2 ij and δv k .
3. With the so far obtained renormalization parameters we compute the counterterm for the scalar one-point function and, as a check, we prove its finiteness. 4. We determine δ∆ k and δΓ k from the divergencies of vertex corrections of the neutralscalar couplings to neutrinos and charged leptons, respectively. For simplicity, this is also done in the unbroken theory. 5. Having obtained δ∆ k , δΓ k , δv k and the counterterm of the scalar one-point function, all ingredients required for the counterterms of the fermion self-energies are at hand and can be determined. We demonstrate that these make indeed the neutrino selfenergy Σ ν and the charged-lepton self-energy Σ ℓ finite. 6 6. Finally, having in mind formulas for the extraction of corrections to the tree-level pole masses from Σ ν and Σ ℓ -see for instance [20,21], we discuss radiative corrections to the tree-level physical neutrino and charged-lepton masses. In particular, we carefully examine the ξ-independence of these physical quantities.
We emphasize that in our renormalization scheme there is no mass renormalization because both scalar and fermion masses are derived quantities and the mass counterterms are, therefore, derived quantities as well. This is a consequence of renormalizing the parameters of the unbroken theory, which is owing to the fact that, for an arbitrary number of Higgs doublets, the number of Yukawa coupling constants is in general much larger than the number of fermion masses. Since we are discussing the lepton sector of the mHDSM, we have both Dirac and Majorana fermions in the theory. When we deem it helpful for the reader, we stress the differences in the treatment of both types of fermions and dwell on the field-theoretical specifics for Majorana neutrinos.
The 2n H neutral scalar mass eigenfields have by definition vanishing VEVs. These have to be re-adjusted, order by order, by finite VEV shifts ∆v k such that the scalar one-point functions vanish [22,23]. 7 In an n-point function with n ≥ 2 one can either take into account these VEV shifts or, equivalently, include all tadpole diagrams instead, as shown for the SM in [22,23]. We show this explicitly in the mHDSM at the one-loop level for the neutrino and charged-lepton self-energies. Moreover, tadpole diagrams play an important role with respect to ξ-independence of physical observables [24]. We present a thorough discussion of this role in the context of radiative fermion mass corrections. Other methods for the treatment of tadpole contributions are carried out in [25,26,27] for variants of the two-Higgs doublet model.
Concerning the notation, we have already explained that the parameters of the Lagrangian are always considered as being renormalized quantities. Furthermore, −iΣ ν (p), −iΣ ℓ (p) and −iΠ(p 2 ) denote the two-point functions of neutrinos, charged fermions and neutral scalars, respectively, as obtained in perturbation theory, including all counterterms. Thus the corresponding quantities with (−i) removed denote the renormalized self-energies.
In order to enhance legibility of the paper we list here the definition and notation of all masses which occur in the paper: • The tree-level neutrino masses are m i (i = 1, 2, . . . , n L + n R ).
• The finite radiative corrections to tree-level fermion masses are denoted by ∆m i and ∆m α .
• Then the total fermion masses are given by m tot,i = m i + ∆m i for neutrinos and m tot,α = m α + ∆m α for charged leptons.
• The vector boson masses are denoted by m W and m Z for W ± and Z boson, respectively.
• Charged and neutral Goldstone bosons correspond to the indices a = 1 and b =1, respectively, with eigenvalues M 2 +1 = M 2 1 = 0 of the respective mass matrices. • However, due to the R ξ gauge the Goldstone bosons have squared masses ξ W m 2 W and ξ Z m 2 Z in the respective propagators. All boson masses are tree-level masses. If in an expression several summations occur referring to charged-scalar mass eigenfields or masses, then the indices a, a ′ or a 1 , a 2 , . . . are used. In the case of neutral scalars, b, b ′ or b 1 , b 2 , . . . is utilized.
The paper is organized as follows. In section 2 we write down all interaction Lagrangians of the mHDSM needed for the computation of one and two-point scalar functions and the fermion self-energies. This section also includes important relations concerning the diagonalization of the (n L + n R ) × (n L + n R ) neutrino mass matrix. In section 3 we discuss the counterterms of the scalar one and two-point functions and determine all counterterm parameters, including δv k of the scalar sector. Section 4 is devoted to a thorough examination of the ξ-independence of the one-loop fermion masses. In section 5 we prove the finiteness of the fermion self-energies in our renormalization scheme. In section 6 we present formulas for these self-energies in Feynman gauge and and discuss the special case of the seesaw mechanism. Finally, our conclusions are found in section 7. In appendix A we show how the charged and neutral-scalar mass matrices are obtained from the scalar potential, while in appendix B we discuss properties of the diagonalization matrices of the scalar mass terms. A short consideration of on-shell contributions to fermion self-energies is found in appendix C. Lastly, in appendix D we convert the loop functions that we use in section 6 to other functions commonly used in the literature.

Yukawa Lagrangian and lepton mass matrices
In this subsection we follow the notation of [11] and repeat some material from this paper. As mentioned in the introduction, we assume that the electric charge remains conserved after spontaneous symmetry breaking. Therefore, we can parameterize the Higgs doublets and their VEVs as The Yukawa Lagrangian may be written as where the Yukawa coupling matrices Γ k and ∆ k are n L × n L and n R × n L , respectively. The lepton mass terms are given by The n R × n R matrix M R is in general complex and symmetric. With the chiral projectors the fermion mass eigenfields ℓ α (α = e, µ, τ ) and χ i (i = 1, . . . , n L + n R ) are obtained from the weak chiral eigenfields e L,R and ν L,R by the transformations The matrices W L and W R are unitary n L × n L matrices such that 9 The matrices U L and U R are n L × (n L + n R ) and n R × (n L + n R ), respectively, such that the matrix is (n L + n R ) × (n L + n R ) unitary. The unitarity of U is expressed as and U diagonalizes the (n L + n R ) × (n L + n R ) Majorana neutrino mass matrix, i.e.
with real and non-negative m i [29]. Therefore, 8 Here and in the following we use the summation convention. 9 We deviate slightly in notation from that of [11] where a basis has been assumed with W L = W R = ½.
In the present paper, for the sake of clarity, we stick to general unitary matrices W L and W R .
A further relation is given by [8] Now we turn to the scalar mass eigenfields S + a (a = 1, . . . , n H ) and S 0 b (b = 1, . . . , 2n H ), related to ϕ + k and ϕ 0 k by respectively. For the definition and properties of the matrices U and V we refer the reader to appendix B. Now we are in a position to formulate the Yukawa interactions in terms of mass eigenfields. Since we perform computations with Majorana neutrinos, i.e. χ c = χ, it is useful to have at hand both the interaction Lagrangians of the charged-lepton fields ℓ and of the charge-conjugated fields ℓ c [30]. The neutral-scalar Yukawa interaction Lagrangian may be written as Note thatl The charged-scalar Yukawa interaction Lagrangian can be formulated as Then for these Lagrangians the coupling matrices are given by [11] Since we identify the scalars carrying index 1 with the Goldstone bosons, we have S 0 1 ≡ G 0 and S + 1 ≡ G + . Using the matrix elements V k1 and U k1 , required for the Goldstone boson couplings, of equation (B.14) in appendix B, we obtain with v being defined in equation (4). Then, exploiting the formulas for the diagonalization of the fermion mass matrices, the coupling matrices of G 0 and G ± can be converted into and [11] respectively.

Charged and neutral current interactions
The squares of vector boson masses are with c w = m W /m Z being the cosine of the weak mixing or Weinberg angle. In terms of the lepton mass eigenfields, we obtain the charged-current Lagrangian and the neutral-current Lagrangians [8,11] with Finally, the electromagnetic interaction Lagrangian of the charged leptons with charge −e is L em = e A µl γ µ ℓ.
Concerning the vector boson propagators in the R ξ gauge, they have the form with V = Z, W, A. For photons only the second form of the propagator is meaningful.

Vector boson-scalar interactions
Here we only display those interaction Lagrangians which we need in the present paper. For the complete set of vector boson-scalar interaction Lagrangians see [12,28]. Derivative couplings of the vector bosons to scalars are given by In the case of non-derivative couplings, we will only need those to the neutral scalars:

Scalar-ghost interactions
Defining we can write the interaction of the scalar mass eigenfields S 0 b with the ghost fields c + , c − and c Z as

Triple scalar interactions
The triple-scalar interactions [28] follow straightforwardly from the scalar potential, equation (A.1): For the properties of λ ijkl see equation (A.2). If one of the scalars is a Goldstone boson, then the difference of the squares of the masses of the other two scalars is involved in the triple scalar coupling [11]. Specializing to the coupling of S 0 to the Goldstone bosons leads to [28] L(S 0 GG)

Quartic scalar interactions
The quartic scalar couplings which we need in the following are given by [28]

Scale factors in dimensional regularization
As mentioned in the introduction, we will be using dimensional regularization for the oneloop integrals in d = 4 − ε dimensions. Introducing the mass scale M, in order to keep the coupling constants dimensionless in d dimensions, we have to make the replacements Similarly, the VEVs have to be scaled by so that they have the dimension of a mass.

The scalar sector
In this section we discuss the one and two-point functions of the neutral scalars.

The counterterms for the one and two-point scalar functions
The scalar potential is defined in equation (A.1). The Lagrangian of the scalar potential plus its counterterm parameters is given by Here the components of the Higgs doublets φ i are meant to be bare fields. For the neutral components of the Higgs doublets we make the ansatz 10 The VEVs v j are in our notation pure tree-level quantities defined as the solution of the set of n H equations By definition, the fields S 0 b have vanishing VEVs, which is guaranteed beyond tree level by the finite VEV shifts ∆v j . In addition, the VEV renormalization δv j is needed in the R ξ gauge in the case of ξ = 0 [17]. The complex n H × 2n H matrix (V jb ) is connected to the orthogonal 2n H × 2n H diagonalization matrix of the mass matrix of the neutral scalars. For its definition and properties we refer the reader to appendix B.
Since we only perform one-loop computations, we write for the wave-function renormalization of the neutral scalars. It is convenient to absorb the wave-function renormalization into the counterterm parameters of equation (42). Thus we define and With these definitions the counterterms for the one and two-point functions are induced by δµ 2 ij , δλ ijkl and δv j . In writing down the counterterm for the scalar one-point function of S 0 b , we "truncate" it by removing M −ε/2 i/(−M 2 b ). Then the counterterm reads Here we have introduced the definitioñ and, consequently, In order to achieve the form of equation (48b) with the neutral scalar masses M b , we have taken into account equation (B.12). Note that, for later reference, we have split the counterterm of equation (48) into a part induced by δµ 2 ij and δλ ijkl and a part induced by δv i .
The counterterm pertaining to the scalar self-energy −iΠ bb ′ (p 2 ) is given by In this counterterm we have done a splitting analogous to the case of the one-point function. Note that the second line in equation (51a) comes about because cf. equation (A.2). A similar argument applies to the second line of equation (51b). We anticipate here that the counterterm of equation (48) connects via the scalar propagator to a neutral or charged fermion line and contributes thus to the counterterms of the fermion self-energy, and the VEV renormalization δv j contributes directly via v j → v j + δv j to the fermion mass counterterms-see figure 6 for a graphical rendering. These counterterms will play an important role in sections 4.3 and 5.
Now we proceed as announced in the introduction in items 1-3. In the MS renormalization scheme at one-loop order the terms proportional to c ∞ of equation (2) have to be cancelled by the respective counterterms.

Renormalization of the quartic scalar couplings
Since we are only interested in the divergencies of the scalar four-point function, we can stick to the unbroken theory for the computation of δλ ijkl . Moreover, as discussed in the previous subsection, it suffices to compute δλ ijkl instead of δλ ijkl . This leads us to consider the four-point function The Feynman diagrams from which we compute the divergencies are displayed in figure 1.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between the labels of the subfigures and those of the subequations of equation (54). Moreover, every subequation contains the contributions of both charged and neutral inner lines of the diagrams. We obtain the following result for the divergencies: 11 The counterterm pertaining to the four-point function of equation (53) is given by Then the MS condition is  Note that L ijkl = L ilkj , as it has to be for consistency. For the further discussion it is convenient to decompose δλ ijkl as The first three terms correspond to the contributions of the scalars, the charged leptons and the neutrinos, respectively, i.e. to those diagrams which do not have a vector boson line. Vector boson contributions can be characterized by powers in the gauge parameters (ξ ν with ν = 0, 1, 2)-see equation (54). Actually, diagrams with two vector boson lines are proportional to g 4 and have parts with ξ 0 and ξ 2 , whereas diagrams with one vector boson line are proportional to g 2 ξ 1 and a quartic scalar coupling. However, inspection of equation (54) reveals that the ξ 2 -terms cancel each other, i.e.
3.3 Divergencies of the neutral-scalar self-energy Now we turn to the divergencies of the scalar two-point function. Having obtained the result for δλ ijkl , we need δµ 2 ij and δv i for the full counterterm of the two-point function, equation (51). The aim of the present section is not only to compute δµ 2 ij and δv i but our computations also serve as a consistency check that the scalar self-energy can indeed be made finite by a suitable choice of these parameters.
In the presentation of the one-loop results for the divergencies we use the vector boson masses of equation (25), the definitions of the matrices Λ, K and K ′ given in appendix A, and equations (B.2) and (B.11). The divergencies refer to those of −iΠ bb ′ (p 2 ), where Π bb ′ (p 2 ) is the self-energy matrix of the neutral scalar mass eigenfields S 0 b . Now we list the momentum-independent divergencies belonging to the diagrams of figure 2. In the individual results we indicate the nature of the particle (or particles) in the loop.
Diagram (a), charged scalars: diagram (a), neutral scalars: diagram (b), charged scalars: diagram (d), W ± and Z bosons: diagram (e), W ± boson and charged scalars: diagram (e), Z boson and neutral scalars: diagram (f), charged ghosts: diagram (f), neutral ghost: diagram (g), neutrinos: In the last two equations we have exploited the mass relations for the leptons, as presented in section 2.1. Some remarks concerning the ξ-dependence of the divergencies are in order. In equations (61) and (62) the linear ξ-dependence comes from the Goldstone bosons in the loop because, due to the R ξ gauge, the Goldstone boson masses M 2 +1 = M 2 1 = 0 are replaced by ξ W m 2 W and ξ Z m 2 Z , respectively. The vector boson loops of equation (63) and (64) lead to a quadratic ξ-dependence, stemming from the ξ-dependence of the vector boson propagators. Finally, the mixed vector boson-scalar loops have a linear ξ-dependence originating in the vector boson propagator, however, an additional factor ξ comes into play in the case of Goldstone bosons in the loop.

Determination of δµ 2
ij and δv k Having computed δλ ijkl in section 3.2, we are now in a position to determine δµ 2 ij and δv k from the divergencies of the scalar self-energy as presented in the previous subsection. It will turn out that this determination is unique for two reasons: 1. By application of the first two relations in equation (B.5), δµ 2 ij can uniquely be extracted from the counterterm of the scalar self-energy in equation (51). [17], δv k is a linear function in ξ.

As proven in
One might think that the usage of the scalar one-point function is appropriate to fix δv k , but this does not offer any advantage because one would need δµ 2 ij anyway since it occurs in the counterterm-see equation (48).
In a graphical presentation, δµ 2 ij and δv k are determined from It can be checked straightforwardly that the divergencies of the scalar self-energy given by equations (59)-(70) have the same types of terms as those in the decomposition of δλ ijkl in equation (57). Therefore, δµ 2 ij can be decomposed in the same way: Inserting δλ ijkl of equation (56) into the counterterm of equation (51a), we find Moreover, Therefore, in these cases we obtain However, in the cases of X = S, χ, ξ 1 the counterterm parameter δµ 2 ij (X) is non-trivial. From and It is amusing to notice that the latter equation is the only instance where M R , the mass matrix of the right-handed neutrino singlets, appears in a counterterm. The linear ξ-terms need a special treatment and we will be very detailed in their discussion. Our aim is to determine the remaining counterterm parameters δµ 2 ij (ξ 1 ) and δv k from the divergencies linear in ξ of the scalar self-energy. In order to streamline the notation, we define where the index 1 indicates linearity in ξ. In terms of this quantity, the sum over all divergencies linear in ξ of the scalar self-energy-see section 3.3-can be written as Now we turn to the counterterm of equation (51) and discuss the various contributions linear in ξ. It is easy to see from equations (54) and (56) that δλ(ξ 1 ) ijkl , the part proportional to ξ 1 of δλ ijkl , can be written in terms of A 1 as well: Plugging this expression into the counterterm formula of equation (51a) and using equation (B.13), we obtain The remaining terms linear in ξ in equation (51) consist of the δµ 2 ij (ξ 1 )-part of equation (51a) and the counterterm induced by δv i , equation (51b), and contain thus the parameters we want to determine.
Adding up all terms linear in ξ, divergence and the three counterterm contributions, we have We know that the sum of these terms must be zero. Since in equations (83a) and (83b) these gauge parameters only occur in A 1 and taking into account that δv k is linear in ξ W and ξ Z , we are lead to the ansatz δv k = cA 1 v k , where c is a constant to be determined by the cancellation of the divergencies. Plugging this ansatz into equation (83d) (last two lines of equation (83)) and using equation (B.13), after some computation these two lines are rewritten as Obviously, with c = 2 or the A 1 -part of the counterterm induced by δv k , equation (84), cancels the term 4iA Having thus determined δv k , we consider the sum of the remaining terms in equation (83) which amounts to Thus we find that together with δv k of equation (85) induce counterterms which cancel the terms linear in ξ in the scalar self-energy. With this, we have finally determined the complete set of parameters, δµ 2 ij , δλ ijkl and δv k that make the scalar self-energy finite.

Finiteness of the scalar one-point function
As in the case of the counterterm of equation (48), we consider the "truncated" one-point function of S 0 b , where the external propagator i/(−M 2 b ) and the factor M −ε/2 are removed. Also we emphasize that the scalar one-point function referring to S 0 1 ≡ G 0 is zero-see discussion after equation (97) (48).
Vector boson and ghost loops: The tadpole diagrams involving the vector boson and ghost loops-see figure 3-deserve a special treatment because the ghost loops cancel exactly that part of the vector boson loops deriving from the gauge-dependent part of the propagator in equation (30a) [24]. Concretely, we are going to demonstrate that the c Z loop cancels the ξ Z -dependent contribution of the Z propagator and the c + and c − loops cancel the ξ W -dependent contribution of the W propagator. First we consider the Z and c Z loops in diagrams (a) and (b) of figure 3, respectively. According to the Lagrangians (32) and (34b), we obtain the loop integrals Note that the minus sign in the numerator of the ghost propagator takes into account the anticommuting nature of the ghost fields. Now we use the formula for the Z mass of equation (25), the definition of ω k in equation (33), and the relation It is then easy to see that the integral (88) is zero.
In the case of the W boson in diagram (a) and the ghost fields c + and c − in diagram (b) of figure 3, Lagrangians (32) and (34a) lead to the loop integral With the same arguments as before we conclude that it is zero.
Divergencies of the Goldstone boson loops and the ξ-dependent terms: The ξ-dependent divergencies of the tadpoles come from the Goldstone-boson loops. The relevant Lagrangian is displayed in equation (37). Using the identity these are given by  The counterterm of equation (48a) associated with δλ ijkl (ξ 1 ) of equation (54c) can be put into the form Now we add up all terms of the scalar one-point function proportional to ξ 1 , i.e. equations (93) and (94) and the remaining counterterms of equation (48), namely those with δµ 2 ij (ξ 1 ) and δv i : Taking δv i from equation (85) and δµ 2 ij (ξ 1 ) from equation (87), the terms in equation (95) add up to zero. Note that the blob in equation (95) is identical with the Goldstone loops in equation (93) because, as explained in the beginning of this subsection, the ξ-dependence of vector boson propagators is cancelled by the ghost loops.
The remaining tadpole diagrams: A tedious but straightforward computation demonstrates that the ξ-independent divergencies of the tadpole diagrams are cancelled by the counterterm (48a) by plugging in the expressions for δµ 2 ij (X) and δλ ijkl (X) with X = S, ℓ ± , χ, ξ 0 .
Summarizing, we have found that the counterterms determined by MS renormalization of the scalar four-point function and the scalar self-energy make the scalar one-point function finite.
3.6 The VEV shift ∆v i and the tadpoles Using equation (B.12), we find that a finite VEV shift ∆v i induces the term in the scalar potential. As announced in section 1, we will now show that it is possible to choose ∆v i such that the scalar one-point function is zero at the one-loop level. There are three contributions to the truncated one-point function: the loop integrals −iT b , the sum of the counterterms (95b)-(95d) denoted by −iC b , and the contribution of equation (96).
Thus we require, in order to achieve a vanishing one-point function, The triangle represents the term −i∆t b induced by equation (96). Before we derive a formula for VEV shift ∆v k , let us dwell a little bit on the onepoint function of G 0 . That G 0 is an unphysical field is suggestive of its vanishing. This is indeed borne out by explicit one-loop considerations: all couplings of G 0 to bosons, including the ghost field c Z , vanish, the c + and c − loops cancel each other exactly, and the fermion loops give zero when the trace is taken in flavour and Dirac space. Concerning the counterterms (48) and taking into account equation (85), we see that all counterterms of the one-point function of G 0 contain the factor v * 14), this factor obviously vanishes.
To proceed further, some remarks are in order: i. From the considerations in section 3.5 we know that the scalar one-point functions, i.e. the quantities T b + C b = −∆t b are finite, thus the ∆v i are finite as well. 12 Diagrammatically, this can be expressed as where the subscript "finite" indicates that all terms proportional to c ∞ have been subtracted.
ii. Since ∆t b belongs to the real scalar field S 0 b , this quantity must be real.
iii. In the quantity ∆t b , the masses M b derive from the mass matrix of the neutral scalars where the Goldstone boson has zero mass, while the Goldstone mass-squared ξ Z m 2 Z derives from the R ξ -gauge condition and occurs only in the propagator.
We can summarize this discussion in the following way: (98) Eventually, our aim is to obtain ∆v k from the ∆t b , but there is the obstacle that ∆v * i V i1 + V * i1 ∆v i is not determined, because it is multiplied by M 2 1 = 0 in ∆t 1 . However, as we will shortly see, the only consistent value of this quantity is Taking this relation into account, the first two relations of equation (B.5) allow to derive the VEV shifts This means that it is indeed possible to make the scalar one-point function vanish by a finite VEV shift ∆v k . Let us check now that equation (100) is indeed consistent with equation (99). We plug the result for ∆v k into equation (99) and utilize the third relation in equation (B.5). In this way we obtain which is the desired result. Now we want to demonstrate that the insertion of all tadpole contributions, including the tadpole counterterm, on a fermion line is equivalent to make the shift v k → v k + ∆v k in the mass term of the respective fermion in the Lagrangian. We begin with the chargedlepton lines. The corresponding expression for these diagrams is (97), and using the expression for ∆t b given in equation (96), we obtain Here the scalar squared masses M 2 b cancel. Taking into account equation (99), we canafter this cancellation-take the sum from b = 1 to 2n H . 13 Since G b contains the factor V * kb -see equation (21b), we apply the first two relations in equation (B.5). This gives the final form of equation (101), namely This expression has exactly the form of the contribution of a mass term to the fermion self-energy, however, with ∆v k instead of v k . We have thus proven the above statement. Now we turn to neutrino lines. We proceed as before and obtain the intermediate expression Note that the factor 2 comes about due to the Majorana nature of the neutrinos. Then we plug in F b of equation (21a) and employ again equation (B.5). We finally arrive at the expression This contribution to −iΣ corresponds precisely to a term in the Lagrangian-compare with the M D term in equation (6) after utilizing equation (9). This proves that taking into account the tadpole diagrams on the neutrino lines corresponds to making a finite VEV shift in the Dirac-type neutrino mass term in the Lagrangian.

Gauge-parameter independence of the one-loop fermion masses 4.1 Two decompositions of the fermion self-energy
We denote by Σ the renormalized fermion self-energy. It can be decomposed as 13 In this context, equation (99) means that the Goldstone boson, i.e. b = 1 does not contribute, which we know already from an earlier discussion in the present subsection. This is further evidence that equation (99) is correct.
For definiteness we use the index i for the fermion masses in this subsection though, in the light of our notation convention laid out in section 1, for charged fermions we should be using α instead. For n fermions the quantities Σ Strictly speaking these relations hold only for the dispersive part of the self-energy. In the case of Majorana fermions, one has in addition If there are no degeneracies in the tree-level masses m i , the diagonal elements of the coefficient matrices in equation (107) allow to express-at lowest non-trivial order-the mass shifts as (110) Therefore, the pole masses, comprising tree-level plus radiative corrections, are given by As we will see, another useful decomposition of Σ is given by where, for our purposes,m is eitherm ν orm ℓ . For simplicity of notation we have dropped the p 2 -dependence in the coefficient matrices A L,B , B The nice feature of the form of equation (112) is that the radiative mass shifts to the tree-level masses are simply given by Of course, this is to be expected but can also be checked explicitly by plugging the expressions of equation (113) into equation (110).
At this point we want to stress that the discussion in the last paragraph holds also for any part of the fermion self-energy. If such a part is decomposed as in equation (112), then the coefficient matrices B L,R , C L,R is irrelevant for the masses. This will be utilized in the following. The ξ-independence of the one-loop neutrino masses for the model put forward in [6] has recently been shown in [31].

Gauge-parameter cancellation in fermion self-energy loops
In this subsection we will demonstrate that, when we include only this part of the vector boson propagator in diagram (a), then the sum of the diagrams in figure 4 has the form of equation (112) with vanishing A L and A R . In other words, of the diagrams in figure 4 only diagram (a) with the vector boson propagator contributes to ∆m i and the sum over the one-loop diagrams gives a ξ-independent contribution to ∆m i , as it must be on physical grounds. We will prove this separately for charged leptons and neutrinos and for charged and neutral boson exchange. The discussion presented here does not apply to photon exchange. This case will be treated separately at the end of this subsection. We first consider the contribution of diagram (a) of figure 4, with the vector boson propagator of equation (115), to the fermion self-energies −iΣ f (p) (f = χ, ℓ). In order to streamline the discussion, we have to introduce some notation. We define such that the coupling matrices of the vector bosons V to the fermions f have the structure γ µ A, where A also includes the flavour part. The matrices A can be read off from the respective Lagrangians. Here is a list of all matrices A under discussion, with f being the incoming fermion: The matrix F LR is defined in equation (28). The expression A c occurs in the Lagrangian of equation (26b), its usage will be explained below. Moreover, we stipulate thatm is the diagonal mass matrix of the fermions with momentum p on the external line, whilem denotes the diagonal mass matrix of the fermions with momentum p − k on the internal line of diagram (a) in figure 4. Eventually, with the abbreviation we find for the contribution to −iΣ f (p), pertaining to the propagator of equation (115), the expression Since we are dealing with Majorana neutrinos, it has to be taken into account that χ cannot only be Wick-contracted withχ but also with χ, and the analogue applies tō χ. Dealing with one-loop computations, this complication arises only in the case of the self-energy Σ χ (p). In this context a very convenient identity is given by [30] where f 1 and f 2 are any vectors of fermion fields and O is product of an arbitrary matrix in Dirac space times a matrix in flavour space or a sum over matrices of this type; the superscript c indicates the charge-conjugated field and C is the charge-conjugation matrix, which acts only in Dirac space. Thus if one contracts χ with an interaction termf 1 Of 2 where f 2 = χ, 14 because of χ c = χ one can simply take advantage of this identity and the aforementioned contraction becomes the ordinary contraction of χ withχ, however, at the expense of transforming O into CO T C −1 . Actually, in our one-loop computations two cases 15 cover all possible situations: i. In the couplings of S 0 b and Z-see equations (18) and (27), respectively-we have f 1 = f 2 = χ and our respective coupling matrices are defined in such a way that they are invariant under the transformation of equation (125): Consequently, in our formalism, a contraction of χ with an interaction term of the typeχOχ simply gives a factor of 2.
ii. In the case of charged-boson interactions, we display both versions of the Lagrangian interaction density, the common one with the charged-lepton fields ℓ and, using equation (125), the one with the fields ℓ c -see equations (20) and (26), in order to clearly spell out both contractions of the external χ orχ.
For W ± exchange, i.e. diagram (a) of figure 4, the second case applies. In the light of the discussion presented here there are two contributions to Σ χ (p) to be taken into account, stemming from A of equation (119) and A c of equation (120).
Now we return to a discussion of equation (124). We follow [24] and make the decom- whereÃ is defined in equation (117), and Obviously, the first term on the right-hand side of equation (127) drops out when performing the integration in equation (124) and all terms in equations (128) and (129) that have / p −m do not contribute to ∆m i or ∆m α . Therefore, it useful to introduce the definitions which refer to the last line in equation (128) and in equation (129), respectively. When we use in the following the notions A-term and B-term, we mean the contribution of A and B, respectively, to the loop integral of equation (124). We will now prove the following [24]

The B-term contribution of equation (130) to diagram (a) of figure 4 is exactly cancelled by diagram (c).
These cancellations occur separately for both neutrino and charged-leptons on the external lines and for both neutrino and charged-leptons on the inner lines. Therefore, in total there are eight cancellations.
Neutrinos and the cancellation of the A-term: Firstly we consider Z exchange and neutrinos on the internal line of diagram (a) in figure 4. With equation (118) and using some formulas of section 2.1, we find in this case Taking into account a factor 4 from the Majorana contractions, we obtain for the loop integral of equation (124) The expression for diagram (c) of figure 4 is given by (133) Note the factor 1/2 on the vertex of S 0 b coupling to G 0 -see equation (37). Since here M 2 b cancels, we can use equation (B.7) to perform the summation To obtain this expression, we have also utilized equation (16). Note that in this sum we can include b = 1 because Im V † V 1b = 0. Finally, we end up with the expression it exactly cancels the A-term. Secondly we consider W exchange and charged leptons on the internal line of diagram (a) in figure 4. Here we obtain However, due to the Majorana nature, we also have the contribution from A c of equation (120), leading to The full A-term is, therefore, As for diagram (c) we can take over the previous result, equation (135), with minor modifications: (140) Note there is no factor 1/2 on the vertex of S 0 b coupling to G ± -see equation (37). With we see that also here the tadpoles cancel the A-term.
Neutrinos and the cancellation of the B-term: Firstly we discuss Z and χ exchange in the loop diagram (a) of figure 4. For the the computation of B we need Since here A is hermitian, we havê Thus the B-term is given by Turning to diagram (b) of figure 4, the G 0 -coupling matrix F 1 of equation (23) can be written with the help of T as This leads to the following expression for diagram (b): Using again equation (136) we see that the expression for diagram (b) exactly cancels the B-term. Secondly we discuss W ± and charged-fermion exchange in the loop diagram (a) of figure 4. In the light of the discussion concerning Majorana fermions, we have to take into account both W + and ℓ − exchange and W − and ℓ + exchange. Defining for simplicity of notation the n L × (n L + n R ) matrix for the quantity B of equation (130) we require the expressions Then, the corresponding B-term is given by In equation (20) we have formulated the couplings of G ± to the fermions with the help of the matrices of equation (24). With the matrix V L they are simply Just as diagram (a) of figure 4, diagram (b) has two contributions as well-see the Lagrangians of equations (20a) and (20b), given by Obviously, using equation (141), diagram (c) cancels the B-term.
Charged leptons and the cancellation of the A-term: For Z and neutrino exchange A is simply given by and the A-term is thus The sum over the tadpoles in diagram (c) of figure 4 now reads the tadpole contributions are thus Applying equation (136), we see that they exactly cancel the A-term. Though for charged W ± and charged-lepton exchange A of equation (122) looks very different from that of equation (121), the result for A is quite similar: It gives the A-term 1 while the tadpole contributions are Both contributions exactly cancel each other, when taking into account equation (141).
leads to B and thus to the B-term With G 1 of equation (23) and the Lagrangian of equation (18), diagram (b) of figure 4 gives which exactly cancels the B-term. Secondly we consider W and χ exchange in diagram (a) of figure 4. Here we havẽ and the B-term Considering diagram (b) of figure 4, we need the Lagrangian of equation (20a) and the matrices R 1 and L 1 of equation (24). The expression for this diagram is then which precisely cancels the B-term.
Photon exchange: This is only possible for charged leptons. Moreover, diagrams (b) and (c) in figure 4 do not exist in this case. However, here A = e½ and the decomposition of equation (127) is simply given by This demonstrates that the part of the photon propagator proportional to ξ A -c.f. equation (30b)-does not contribute to ∆m α . Yukawa coupling renormalization: Vertex corrections to the S 0 b coupling to neutrinos can effectively be written as counterterms to the Yukawa coupling matrices ∆ k or can be computed in the unbroken theory as a correction to the ϕ 0 k vertex. The result is

Yukawa coupling renormalization and mass counterterms
where the first term stems from diagrams (c) and (d) in figure 5 and the second one from diagram (b) with charged-scalar exchange. Note that the contributions of diagram (a) with neutral and charged vector boson exchange and of diagram (b) with neutral scalar exchange are zero separately. Now we discuss vertex corrections of the S 0 b coupling to leptons. Those can be subsumed as δΓ k . The result is where the two terms in the first line originate, just as before, from diagrams (c) and (d) in figure 5 and from diagram (b) with charged-scalar exchange. As before, diagram (a) with W ± exchange and diagram (b) with S 0 b ′ exchange give vanishing contributions. However, Z and photon exchange in diagram (a) are non-zero, leading to the two terms in the second line. Mass counterterms: There are two types of counterterms for the fermion self-energies. The first type, depicted in diagram (a) of figure 6, originates in δv k , δ∆ k and δM R for neutrinos, while for charged leptons it stems from δv k and δΓ k . Both have also wavefunction renormalization counterterms. Defining diagram (a) thus refers to the terms in the case of charged leptons and to for neutrinos. The second type of counterterm is symbolized by diagram (b) of figure 6 and connects the tadpole counterterm to the fermion line.
In order to discuss the ξ-dependence of the counterterms it is expedient to have the explicit ξ-dependence of the wave-function renormalization matrices as well. For neutrinos the result is whereas for charged lepton we find the more involved result Using the definition of A 1 , equation (79), we can recast this equation into Gauge-parameter independence of mass counterterms: Let us take stock of the ξ-dependence in the counterterms. (a-iv) the A 1 -term of δ (χ) (ξ) and of δ (ℓ) (ξ) and (a-v) the residual ξ-dependence of δ (ℓ) (ξ) not contained in A 1 .
(b) Finally, the ξ-dependence that resides in the tadpole counterterms symbolized by diagram (b) of figure 6 has to be accounted for in the present discussion. 16 The relevant expression can be read off from equation (95), where the first line is the divergence of the tadpole loops. Thus the sum of the other three lines, given by are the ξ-dependent tadpole counterterms to be taken into account here.
In the following we will show that the ξ-dependent counterterms listed here do not contribute to ∆m i and ∆m α . With equations (85), (167) and (168) it is obvious that the terms stemming from (a-i) and (a-ii) cancel each other in both δM ℓ and δM D .
Next we consider the terms originating in (a-iv) and diagram (b). In the case of neutrinos the contribution of diagram (b) of figure 6 to −iΣ χ (p) gives Since the expression in equation (175) is zero for b = 1-c.f. equation (B.14)-and the scalar masses cancel, we can include b = 1 in the sum. Moreover, taking advantage of the first two relations of equation (B.5) and using which follows from equations (21a) and (23), the contribution of diagram (b) of figure 6 finally has the form Adding this to the A 1 -term of δ (χ) (ξ) and introducing the abbreviation Z ≡ U † L U L , we arrive at According to section (4.1), we can read off from this expression that it does not contribute to ∆m i . With this we have concluded the discussion of counterterms to the neutrino selfenergy. Now we proceed in an analogous fashion in the case of charged leptons. Skipping here all details, the A 1 -term of δ (ℓ) (ξ) together with the contribution of diagram (b) of figure 6 leads to in −iΣ ℓ (p). Therefore, this does not contribute to ∆m α . It remains to consider the terms (a-iii) and (a-v), which refer solely to charged leptons. These are Obviously, the ξ A -terms combine to give / p−m ℓ . That the ξ Z -terms can also be decomposed into expressions having external factors / p −m ℓ , can be concluded from the discussion in appendix C. Explicitly, one such decomposition is given by Summarizing, we have found that all ξ-dependent counterterms to the neutrino or charged-lepton self-energies have external factors / p−m ν or / p−m ℓ , respectively. Therefore, in our renormalization scheme there are no ξ-dependent counterterms for the one-loop radiative masses ∆m i (i = 1, . . . , n L + n R ) and ∆m α (α = e, µ, τ ). Here we want to demonstrate that in our renormalization scheme the fermion selfenergies are finite. The corresponding diagrams are displayed in figure 7. Since the wave-function renormalization matrices can always be chosen such that the divergent terms proportional to / p cancel, it is sufficient to consider Σ (B) L,R , defined in equation (107), of the fermion self-energies. Moreover, due to equation (108) we only need to examine Σ (B) L . According to our renormalization scheme, diagram (c) of figure 7 is essentially induced by the renormalization of the Yukawa coupling matrices. The only genuine mass renormalization we have refers to the renormalization of the mass matrix M R . However, as we will see shortly, at one-loop level it is not needed.

Neutrinos
With δv k of equation (85) and δ∆ k of equation (167), the part of the counterterm of equation (171) that is supposed to make −i Σ Beginning with the Z contribution to the neutrino self-energy, it is easy to see that equation (15a) makes it finite. Concerning neutral scalar exchange, it also does not give a divergence because of V kb V lb = 0-see equation (B.5). As for W ± exchange, here the chiral projector is the reason that both divergent and finite contributions to Σ (B) νL vanish. However, the charged-scalar exchange has a non-vanishing divergence, which agrees, apart from the sign, with the counterterms in the first and second line of equation (183). Therefore, the ξ-independent Yukawa counterterm in equation (167) indeed cancels the divergence of Σ (B) νL . Consequently, the δM R counterterm of equation (171c) must be zero because it is not needed. In other words, at the one-loop level we find δM R = 0. (184)

Charged leptons
We have to plug δv k of equation (85) and δΓ k of equation (168) into the / p-independent counterterm of equation (170). In this way, we obtain the complete counterterm pertaining It is straightforward to check that the ξ Z , ξ A and M D terms in this formula cancel the divergences of the Z, photon and charged-lepton loops in Σ (B) ℓL . As in the case of neutrinos, the W ± loop is zero and the sum over the neutral-lepton loops is finite because of the second relation in equation (B.5). Therefore, we find that δv k and δΓ k indeed make the self-energy of the charged leptons finite.

One-loop fermion self-energy formulas in Feynman gauge
In this section, our goal is to present formulas for the fermion self-energies that allow to compute the one-loop radiative corrections to the tree-level masses. Since we have proven that these corrections are ξ-independent, we can resort to a specific gauge. In order to have the most simple form of the vector boson propagators-see equation (30b), we choose the Feynman gauge with Consequently, in our formulas for the lepton self-energies, summations over scalar contributions always include the Goldstone bosons. At the end we use the self-energies to investigate radiative corrections to the seesaw mechanism.

Self-energies
The mass formula, equation (110), can be adapted to the type of fermion by taking into account equations (108) and (109). In this way we find the radiative fermion mass corrections and where In order to write the (n L + n R ) × (n L + n R ) matrices Σ νL in a compact way, we define the following diagonal matrices: In addition, we need the analogous matrices with F 1 . For the charged leptons, we have n L × n L = 3 × 3 matrices etc. In the case of charged fermions, photon exchange occurs as well, therefore, we also introduce the matrices F 0,A,ℓ and F 1,A,ℓ , which have no analogue in the neutrino sector.
In the case of Σ ℓL we distinguish between that part stemming from the diagrams of figure 7 and those from the VEV shift-see section 3.6. The first one we indicate by the superscript "proper" and the second one by "shift": (193) 17 A conversion to other widely used loop functions is given in appendix D.
For the neutrinos, the result for the self-energy is The corresponding coupling matrices are found in sections 2.1 and 2.2. In the W ± term, the matrix V L of equation (147) occurs, which will also be relevant for the charged-lepton self-energy. In the computation of the Z contribution, we have employed and These relations follow from equation (15a). The matrix F RL occurs in the Z contribution because of changing the position of the Dirac matrices: Turning to charged leptons, the self-energy is given by The parts of the fermion self-energies induced by the VEV shift are read off from equations (105) and (103), respectively: The shifts ∆v k are related to the ∆t b of equation (96) are allowed for (M L ) 1-loop . Therefore, this radiative n L × n L mass matrix must be finite. Moreover, the light neutrino mass matrix is modified to Examination of the neutrino self-energy and using the seesaw approximation of U of equation (204) leads to the conclusion that (M L ) 1-loop is determined by the contributions of the neutral scalars and the Z boson to Σ (B, proper) νL of equation (195) [8]. As discussed in section 5.1, these are indeed finite without any renormalization. Moreover, the dominant corrections are induced by heavy neutrino exchange and, therefore, we can neglect light neutrino masses in F 0 . In this way, we can define an effective neutrino mass matrix given by Obviously, the function has the symmetry F (a, b) = F (b, a). Since (M L ) 1-loop must be given in the same basis as the mass matrix of equation (14), we have performed the corresponding basis transformation, given by U * L to the left and U † L to the right in the first line of equation (208).
To proceed further, we convert F in the two forms (210) Next we define the diagonal matriceŝ Then we can write the neutral-scalar contribution to equation (208) as Summing in this equation from b = 1 to b = 2n H , the second relation of equation (B.5) tells us that only the last term in the square brackets contributes. Similarly, the Z contribution can be formulated as In this case, because of equation (15a), again only the last term in the square brackets contributes. Now we consider the Goldstone boson contribution to equation (212) separately. Sincer 1 =r Z , it is suggestive to add it to the Z contribution. Indeed, using equations (B.14) and (16), we obtain Plugging this into the part with b = 1 of equation (212), we find that the G 0 contribution differs from the Z contribution solely by the numerical factor −1/4. Eventually, we arrive at the result [8] ( For n H = 1 it agrees with the result in [7]. We observe that the Goldstone plus Z contribution to (M L ) 1-loop is universal, i.e. independent of n H . 18 After employing once more equation (16), we find that it is of the same order of magnitude as that of the physical neutral scalars. Moreover, the light neutrino masses are completely negligible in these one-loop corrections, which amounts to setting It has been pointed out in [6,7,8,32] that numerically these corrections can be sizeable.

Conclusions
Extensions of the scalar sector play an important role in lepton mass and mixing models. However, predictions of such models have mostly been computed at tree level and their stability under radiative corrections has not been tested.
In this paper we have considered an important class of such models, the mHDSM, which has an arbitrary number n H of Higgs doublets and an arbitrary number n R of right-handed neutrino singlets with Majorana mass terms. Using the R ξ gauge for the quantization of the mHDSM, we have proposed a simple renormalization scheme which gives a straightforward recipe for the computation of radiative corrections. The idea is that all counterterms are induced by the parameters of the unbroken theory, with the exception of the VEV renormalization δv k (k = 1, . . . , n H ). Since all masses in the mHDSM are obtained by spontaneous gauge-symmetry breaking, masses are derived quantities and there is no mass renormalization in our scheme. The removal of the corresponding divergencies is procured by the renormalization of VEVs and Yukawa couplings.
In addition to the infinite counterterm parameters δv k , there are the well-known finite VEV shifts ∆v k induced by the finite parts of tadpole diagrams, which guarantee that beyond tree level the VEVs of the physical neutral scalars are still vanishing.
We have demonstrated, by determination of all counterterm parameters, that at the one-loop level our renormalization scheme is capable of removing all divergences and we have elucidated the prescription for computing the VEV shifts ∆v k . Moreover, we have shown analytically for the one-loop fermion self-energies that including the VEV shifts is equivalent to the insertion of all tadpole diagrams on the fermion line.
As an application of the renormalization scheme we have presented the full fermion mass corrections at the one-loop level. In this context, we have identified all the mechanisms and performed analytically the necessary computations to show that these corrections are ξ-independent, in both the loop diagrams and the counterterms. In the case of loop diagrams we have closely followed ref. [24]. Finally, we have demonstrated that in the seesaw limit the radiative corrections to the seesaw mechanism computed in ref. [8] derive from our much more general framework.

A The scalar mass matrices
In this section we discuss the tree-level scalar masses. The scalar potential is given by We allow for an arbitrary number n H of scalar doublets φ k (k = 1, 2, . . . , n H ) and use the notation We then write (A.4) The quadratic terms in the scalar potential are written as The mass matrix of the charged scalars [11], is complex and hermitian, with Λ being hermitian as well. The matrices A and B are real and symmetric; C is real but otherwise arbitrary. All matrices defined so far are n H × n H matrices.
The mass matrix of the neutral real scalar fields ρ i and σ j may then be formulated as the real 2n H × 2n H matrix Defining complex n H × n H matrices where K is symmetric and K ′ is hermitian. The matrices A, B, C are obtained as [11] A = Re µ 2 + Λ + K ′ + Re K , (A.9a) B = Re µ 2 + Λ + K ′ − Re K , (A.9b) C = −Im µ 2 + Λ + K ′ + Im K , (A.9c) respectively. Without loss of generality we can writẽ

B The diagonalization matrices of the charged and neutral scalar mass terms
where V is a complex n H ×2n H matrix. In terms of V , orthogonality ofṼ reads [8,12,28] is in general not diagonal, but it is easy to see that Im V † V bb ′ is antisymmetric in the indices b, b ′ [28]. A further relation, useful in one-loop computations, is The matrices U and V allow to write the Higgs doublets φ k in terms of the mass eigenfields S + a and S 0 b : .

(B.8)
There is no straightforward analogue to equation (B.2). But rewriting equation (B.3) as and using subsequently equation (A.7) leads to Eventually, application of equation (A.9) gives the useful results [28] VM 2 0 V T = 2K, (B.11a) VM 2 0 V † = 2 µ 2 + Λ + K ′ . (B.11b) We denote the masses of the charged and neutral scalars by M +a (a = 1, . . . , n H ) and M b (b = 1, . . . , 2n H ), respectively. Obviously, the a-th column of U is an eigenvector of M 2 + with eigenvalue M 2 +a . By definition, the b-th column ofṼ is an eigenvector of M 2 0 with eigenvalue M 2 b , which in terms of the columns of V reads [11] Taking into account equation (B.5), this equation can be cast into the very useful form The mass matrices M 2 + and M 2 0 also contain one eigenvalue zero each, referring to the Goldstone bosons. Allocating the indices a = 1 and b = 1 to the charged and the neutral Goldstone boson, respectively, the corresponding columns in U and V are given by [11] respectively.

C On-shell contributions to the fermion self-energies
Here we confine ourselves to one fermion field. Suppose a contribution σ(p) to the total (renormalized) self-energy Σ(p) is given by What is the condition that σ(p) vanishes on-shell? With this we mean that it has the form It is easy to prove that for m = 0 this is the case if and only if

D Conversion to scalar Feynman integrals
The loop functions F 0 and F 1 of section 6 can easily be converted into the well-known Feynman integral representations B 0 and B 1 as defined in [33,34] and numerically evaluated using freely available computer algebra software such as LoopTools [35]. The conversion reads The loop-integrals referred to are (C.6b)