Cosmological Lower Bound on the Higgs-Boson Mass
Abstract
Cosmological considerations imply that the Weinberg-Salam Higgs boson mass mH>~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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1131
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..45.1131G
- Keywords:
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- Bosons;
- Cosmic Rays;
- Elementary Particle Interactions;
- Particle Mass;
- Baryons;
- Entropy;
- Supercooling;
- Astrophysics;
- 12.20.Hx;
- 12.30.-s;
- 98.80.Bp;
- Origin and formation of the Universe