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Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs-boson mass

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If gravity is asymptotically safe, then the ultimate theory might be just the standard model (minimally supplemented by a few light particles to accommodate neutrino masses and oscillations, dark matter, and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe) plus gravity. If this is indeed the case, then the Higgs-boson mass can be predicted (m H = m min ≃ 130 GeV with an uncertainty of only a few GeV) or constrained to be in the interval m min < m H < m max ≃ 174 GeV.

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Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the author; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 170, No. 2, pp. 280–291, February, 2012.

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Shaposhnikov, M.E. Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs-boson mass. Theor Math Phys 170, 229–238 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-012-0025-6

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