Remarkable Mass Relations in the Electroweak Model

2001/05/29 by J. Pestieau, Jean Pestieau, Pestieau, Jean
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0105301

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Abstract

In the electroweak standard model we observe two remarkable empirical mass relations, m_W + m_B = v/2 and m_W - m_B = e v/2 where m²_Z = m²_W + m²_B, e is the positron electric charge and v, the strength of the Higgs condensate.

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