A Cosmological Lower Bound on the Higgs Boson Mass

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  • Alan H. Guth
  • Erick J. Weinberg
چکیده

Cosmological considerations imply that the Weinberg-Salam Higgs boson mass mH ) 9 GeV. If this bound were violated, the symmetry breaking phase transition would occur only after extreme supercooling, resulting in too high a ratio of entropy to baryon number. Submitted to Physical Review Letters * Work supported by the Department of Energy, Contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. On leave from Cornell University. Address after September 1, 1980: Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow on leave from Columbia University, New York, New York 10027.

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تاریخ انتشار 1980