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FIELDS, PARTICLES, AND NUCLEI
Standard Model Higgs field and energy scale of gravity
F. R. Klinkhamer Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universität Karlsruhe
Abstract:
The effective potential of the Higgs scalar field in the Standard Model
may have a second degenerate minimum at an ultrahigh vacuum expectation value.
This second minimum then determines, by radiative corrections,
the values of the top-quark and Higgs-boson masses
at the standard minimum corresponding to the electroweak energy scale.
An argument is presented that this ultrahigh vacuum expectation value
is proportional to the energy scale of gravity,
$E_{\text{Planck}} \equiv \sqrt{\hbar\, c^5/G_{N}}$,
considered to be characteristic of a spacetime foam.
In the context of a simple model, the existence of
kink-type wormhole solutions places a lower bound on the
ultrahigh vacuum expectation value and this lower bound
is of the order of $E_{\text{Planck}}$.
Received: 11.02.2013
Citation:
F. R. Klinkhamer, “Standard Model Higgs field and energy scale of gravity”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 97:6 (2013), 340–343; JETP Letters, 97:6 (2013), 297–300
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