Scattering into the fifth dimension of N = 4 super Yang-Mills by Alday, L, Henn, J, Plefka, J, Schuster, T

“…The infrared divergences are regulated by masses obtained from a Higgs mechanism, allowing us to work in four dimensions. …”

Search for technicolor with DELPHI by Abdallah, J, Abreu, P, Adam, W, Adzic, P, Albrecht, T, Alderweireld, T, Alemany-Fernandez, R, Allport, P, Ahmehed, S, Almendinger, T, Amaldi, U, Amapane, N, Amato, S, Anashkin, E, Andreazza, A, Andringa, S, Anjos, N, Antilogus, P, Apel, W, Arnoud, Y, Ask, S, Asman, B, Augustin, J, Augustinus, A, Baillon, P

“…Technicolor represents a viable alternative to the Higgs mechanism for generating gauge boson masses. Searches for technicolor particles ρT and πT have been performed in the data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP at ceritre-of-mass energies between 192 and 208 GeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 452 pb-1. …”

A predictive mirror twin Higgs with small Z2 breaking by Keisuke Harigaya, Robert McGehee, Hitoshi Murayama, Katelin Schutz

“…Abstract The twin Higgs mechanism is a solution to the little hierarchy problem in which the top partner is neutral under the Standard Model (SM) gauge group. …”
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Connecting between inflation and dark matter in models with gauged Z 3 symmetry by Soo-Min Choi, Jinsu Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Bin Zhu

“…The dark local U(1) symmetry is broken spontaneously into the Z 3 symmetry by the dark Higgs mechanism. As compared to dark matter models with Z 2 parity, the dark matter cubic self-interaction restricts the inflation with non-minimal couplings to take place beyond the pure dark matter direction and plays an important role in the loop corrections for the inflationary predictions as well as determining the correct dark matter relic density. …”
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Festina-Lente bound on Higgs vacuum structure and inflation by Sung Mook Lee, Dhong Yeon Cheong, Sang Chul Hyun, Seong Chan Park, Min-Seok Seo

“…Since the charged particle masses in the Standard Model (SM) are generated by the Higgs mechanism, the FL bound provides a testbed of consistent Higgs potentials in the current dark energy-dominated universe as well as during inflation. …”
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SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics: A priori estimate and radiative corrections by Hofmann Ralf

“…This includes the spatially central and peripheral structure of Harrington-Shepard (anti)calorons, a sketch on how a spatial coarse-graining over (anti)caloron centers yields an inert scalar field, which is responsible for an adjoint Higgs mechanism, the identification of (anti)caloron action with ħ, a discussion of how, owing to (anti)caloron structure, the thermal ground state can be excited (wave-like and particlelike massless modes, massive thermal quasiparticle fluctuations), the principle role of and accounting for radiative corrections, the exclusion of energy-sign combinations due to constraints on momenta transfers in four-vertices in a completely fixed, physical gauge, dihedral diagrams and their resummation up to infinite loop order in the massive sector, and the resummation of the one-loop polarisation tensor of the massless modes. …”
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Subleading Regge limit from a soft anomalous dimension by Robin Brüser, Simon Caron-Huot, Johannes M. Henn

“…In this paper, we study such corrections in a model of massive scattering amplitudes in N=4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ super Yang-Mills, in the planar limit, where the mass is generated through a Higgs mechanism. Using known three-loop analytic expressions for the scattering amplitude, we find that the first power suppressed term has a very simple form, equal to a single power law. …”
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Symmetric Mass Generation by Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You

“…The most well-known mechanism for fermions to acquire a mass is the Nambu–Goldstone–Anderson–Higgs mechanism, i.e., after a spontaneous symmetry breaking, a bosonic field that couples to the fermion mass term condenses, which grants a mass gap for the fermionic excitation. …”
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The trilinear Higgs self-couplings at $$\mathcal {O}(\alpha _t^2)$$ O ( α t 2 ) in the CP-violating NMSSM by Christoph Borschensky, Thi Nhung Dao, Martin Gabelmann, Margarete Mühlleitner, Heidi Rzehak

“…In addition, the measurement of the trilinear Higgs self-coupling provides the first step towards the reconstruction of the Higgs potential and the experimental verification of the Higgs mechanism sui generis. In this paper, we advance our prediction of the trilinear Higgs self-couplings in the CP-violating Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the SM (NMSSM). …”
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Production and backreaction of spin-2 particles of SU(2) gauge field during inflation by A. Maleknejad, E. Komatsu

“…We provide a unified formalism to compute this effect in all of the inflation models with isotropic SU(2) gauge fields such as Gauge-flation and Chromo-Natural inflation with and without spectator axion fields or the mass of the gauge field from the Higgs mechanism. First, we calculate the number and energy densities of the spin-2 particles. …”
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Testing the charge-radius coupling of composite Goldstone (Higgs) bosons at hadron colliders by G. Cacciapaglia, S. Gascon-Shotkin, A. Lesauvage, N. Manglani, K. Sridhar

“…This coupling offers a deep probe of the composite nature of the Higgs mechanism, being sensitive to the electromagnetic and weak isospin structure of its constituents. …”
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Gravitational waves from first order electroweak phase transition in models with the U(1) X gauge symmetry by Katsuya Hashino, Mitsuru Kakizaki, Shinya Kanemura, Pyungwon Ko, Toshinori Matsui

“…Abstract We consider a standard model extension equipped with a dark sector where the U(1) X Abelian gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the dark Higgs mechanism. In this framework, we investigate patterns of the electroweak phase transition as well as those of the dark phase transition, and examine detectability of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by such strongly first order phase transition. …”
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Exponentiating Higgs by Marco Matone

“…It follows that the simplest lagrangian density for the Higgs mechanism has the standard kinetic term in addition to the mass term, with the right sign, and to a linear term in ϕ. …”
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Scale symmetry breaking, quantum anomalous energy and proton mass decomposition by Xiangdong Ji, Yizhuang Liu, Andreas Schäfer

“…We further argue that QAE role in the proton mass resembles a dynamical Higgs mechanism, in which the anomalous scale symmetry breaking field generates mass scales through its vacuum condensate, as well as its static and dynamical responses to the valence quarks. …”
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Evading direct dark matter detection in Higgs portal models by Giorgio Arcadi, Christian Gross, Oleg Lebedev, Stefan Pokorski, Takashi Toma

“…When the hidden sector gauge symmetry is broken via the Higgs mechanism, the hidden sector generally contains unstable states which are lighter than dark matter. …”
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A more natural composite Higgs model by Hsin-Chia Cheng, Yi Chung

“…Moreover, a Higgs quartic term from the collective symmetry breaking of the little Higgs mechanism can be realized by the partial compositeness couplings between elementary Standard Model fermions and the composite operators, without introducing new elementary fields beyond the Standard Model and the composite sector. …”
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How planar superconductors cure their infrared divergences by M. C. Diamantini, C. A. Trugenberger, V. M. Vinokur

“…Coulomb interactions between charges are logarithmic up to distances comparable to typical sample sizes and the Anderson-Higgs mechanism is ineffective to screen the infrared divergences of the resulting (2+1)-dimensional QED because the Pearl length screening the vortex interactions is also typically larger than the sample size. …”
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Light dark Higgs boson in minimal sub-GeV dark matter scenarios by Luc Darmé, Soumya Rao, Leszek Roszkowski

“…The mass term for such mediator is most naturally obtained by a “dark Higgs mechanism” which leads to the presence of an often long-lived dark Higgs boson whose mass scale is the same as that of the mediator. …”
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Gravitational-wave signatures of chiral-symmetric technicolor by Hao Yang, Felipe F. Freitas, Antonino Marcianò, António P. Morais, Roman Pasechnik, João Viana

“…Focusing on its simplest realization preserving the conventional Higgs mechanism, we study its primordial gravitational wave signatures originating from first order phase transitions in the early Universe. …”
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Photon masses in the landscape and the swampland by Matthew Reece

“…Abstract In effective quantum field theory, a spin-1 vector boson can have a technically natural small mass that does not originate from the Higgs mechanism. For such theories, which may be written in Stückelberg form, there is no point in field space at which the mass is exactly zero. …”
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