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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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Axioms |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/12/12/1093 |