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Heavy Higgs Bosons

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The possibility that weak and electromagnetic interactions are described, in a unified manner, by a spontaneously broken SU(2)L × U(1) gauge theory1 has gained wide experimental support over the past decade. However, one of the least satisfactory aspects of this theory is its reliance on elementary scalar fields to spontaneously break the gauge symmetry and, via the Higgs mechanism, generate masses for the vector bosons.

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  5. Counterterms can be generated which are not CP invariant, and the heavy-Higgs-boson physics represented by these structures when quarks are included in the theory is currently under investigation by the author.

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  6. This is only true in Landau gauge, which we adopt. In this gauge, the Fadeev-Popov ghosts decouple from the scalar fields.

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  1. J. W. Gibbs Laboratory Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Anthony C. Longhitano

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  1. Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Federal Republic of Germany

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Longhitano, A.C. (1981). Heavy Higgs Bosons. In: Mütter, K.H., Schilling, K. (eds) Current Topics in Elementary Particle Physics. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 70. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8279-9_9

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