1994/03/08 by Delgado, V.
#Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9403247
An alternative for the Higgs mechanism is proposed. It predicts the appearance in the broken phase of a scalar background field which may be interpreted as describing an almost uniform (i.e., homogeneous and isotropic) superfluid condensate of decoupled Higgs bosons. Quantum fields acquire mass as a consequence of nonperturbative interactions with those particles condensed in the zero-momentum state (which constitutes the physical vacuum of the theory) giving rise in turn to the appearance of density fluctuations. This mechanism has therefore remarkable cosmological implications.