Self-interaction and mass in quantum field theory
Abstract
Qualitative implications of electroweak theory are reconsidered on the assumption that the unique source of fermion rest mass is self-interaction via coupling to gauge fields. This implies small but nonzero mass for neutrinos, and suggests that successive fermion generations are distinct coupled-field eigenstates of a self-interaction mass operator. For a scalar Higgs field, this mechanism can account for the SU(2) symmetry breaking of electroweak theory without a biquadratic self-interaction. The implied Higgs particle mass could be very small, eluding any search limited to heavy particles.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0606176
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0606176
- Bibcode:
- 2006hep.ph....6176N
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Revised text