Abstract
Cosmological considerations imply that the Weinberg-Salam Higgs boson mass ${m}_{\mathrm{H}}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}9$ GeV. If this bound were violated, the symmetry-breaking phase transition would occur only after extreme supercooling, resulting in too high a ratio of entropy to baryon number.
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PhysicsHiggs bosonParticle physicsBosonBaryonUpper and lower boundsSupercoolingPhase transitionSymmetry breakingQuantum mechanicsThermodynamics
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- 45
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- 14
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- 1131-1134
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Alan H. Guth,
Erick J. Weinberg
(1980).
Cosmological Lower Bound on the Higgs-Boson Mass.
Physical Review Letters
, 45
(14)
, 1131-1134.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.45.1131
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- DOI
- 10.1103/physrevlett.45.1131