Mass Generation via the Phase Transition of the Higgs Field

Mass Generation via the Phase Transition of the Higgs Field

The commonly quoted bistable Higgs potential is not a proper description of the Higgs field because, among other technical reasons, one of its stable states acquires a negative expectation value in vacuum. We rely on formal catastrophe theory to derive the form of the Higgs potential that admits onl...

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Main Authors: Dimitris M. Christodoulou, Demosthenes Kazanas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Axioms
Subjects:
cosmology
critical phenomena
Higgs production
non-equilibrium field theory
particle astrophysics
first-order and second-order phase transitions
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/12/12/1093

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