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We explore the possibility that the Higgs boson of the standard model be actually a member of a larger family, by showing that a more elaborate internal structure naturally arises from geometrical arguments, in the context of a partly original handling of gauge fields which was put forward in previous papers. A possible mechanism yielding the usual Higgs potential is proposed. New types of point interactions, arising in particular from two-spinor index contractions, are shown to be allowed.
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Canarutto, D. Natural Extensions of Electroweak Geometry and Higgs Interactions. Ann. Henri Poincaré 16, 2695–2711 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-014-0383-8
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