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Quantum-hydrodynamical picture of the massive Higgs boson
The phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking admits a physical
interpretation in terms of the Bose-condensation process of elementary spinless
quanta. In this picture, the broken-symmetry phase emerges as a real physical
medium, endowed with a hierarchical pattern of scales, supporting two types of
elementary excitations for k \to 0: a massive energy branch E_a(k) \to M_H,
corresponding to the usual Higgs boson field, and a collective gap-less branch
E_b(k) \to 0. This is similar to the coexistence of phonons and rotons in
superfluid He-4 that, in fact, is usually considered the condensed-matter
analog of the Higgs condensate.
After previous work dedicated to the properties of the gap-less, phonon
branch, in this paper we use quantum hydrodynamics to propose a physical
interpretation of the massive branch. On the base of our results, M_H coincides
with the energy-gap for vortex formation and a massive Higgs boson is like a
roton in superfluid He-4. Within this interpretation of the Higgs particle,
there is no "naturalness" problem since M_H remains a naturally intermediate,
fixed energy scale, even for an ultimate ultraviolet cutoff Lambda \to \infty.Comment: Latex file, 20 pages, no figure
A weak, attractive, long-range force in Higgs condensates
Due to the peculiar nature of the underlying medium, density fluctuations in
a `Higgs condensate' are predicted to propagate for infinitely long wavelengths
with a group velocity . On the other hand, for any large but
finite there is a weak, attractive potential of strength
and the energy spectrum deviates from the purely massive
form \sqrt{p}^2 + M^2_h} at momenta smaller than . Physically, the length scale corresponds to
the mean free-path for the elementary constituents in the condensate and would
naturally be placed in the millimeter range.Comment: 12 pages, LaTe
Long-wavelength excitations of Higgs condensates
Quite independently of the Goldstone phenomenon, recent lattice data suggest
the existence of gap-less modes in the spontaneously broken phase of a theory. This result is a direct consequence of the quantum nature of
the `Higgs condensate' that cannot be treated as a purely classical c-number
field.Comment: 6 page
Large rescaling of the Higgs condensate: theoretical motivations and lattice results
In the Standard Model the Fermi constant is associated with the vacuum
expectation value of the Higgs field, `the condensate', usually believed to be
a cutoff-independent quantity. General arguments related to the `triviality' of
theory in 4 space-time dimensions suggest, however, a dramatic
renormalization effect in the continuum limit that is clearly visible on the
relatively large lattices available today. The result can be crucial for the
Higgs phenomenology and in any context where spontaneous symmetry breaking is
induced through scalar fields.Comment: LATTICE99(Higgs) 3 pages, 3 figure
Indications on the Higgs boson mass from lattice simulations
The `triviality' of has been traditionally interpreted within
perturbation theory where the prediction for the Higgs boson mass depends on
the magnitude of the ultraviolet cutoff . This approach crucially
assumes that the vacuum field and its quantum fluctuations rescale in the same
way. The results of the present lattice simulation, confirming previous
numerical indications, show that this assumption is not true. As a consequence,
large values of the Higgs mass can coexist with the limit . As an example, by extrapolating to the Standard Model our results
obtained in the Ising limit of the one-component theory, one can obtain a value
as large as GeV, independently of .Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, Lattice2003(higgs
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