What is the Standard Model Higgs ?

1999/12/05 by Afsar Abbas, Abbas, Afsar
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9912243

Latex file, 9 pages, no figures

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Abstract

It is shown that in the Standard Model, the property of charge quantization holds for a Higgs with arbitrary isospin and hypercharge. These defining quantum numbers of the Higgs remain unconstrained while the whole basic and fundamental structure of the Standard Model remains intact. Hence it is shown that the Higgs cannot be a physical particle. Higgs is the underlying `vacuum' over which the whole edifice of the Standard Model stands.

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