About the electroweak vacuum and its connection with the quark condensates

2016/11/11 by Renata Jora, Jora, Renata
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.03822

8 pages

arxiv created 2016/11/11 · arxiv updated 2016/11/14

Abstract

We make a change of variable in the standard model Higgs field by a fermion operator and show that the latter is responsible for the electroweak vacuum. By computing the vacuum expectation value of this fermion operator in the path integral formalism we determine a relation among the quark vacuum condensates, the quark masses and the intrinsic scale of the theory. We show that the heavy quark vacuum condensates do not justify the hypothesis of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking with only standard model fermions.

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