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A weak, attractive, long-range force in Higgs condensates

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Due to the peculiar nature of the underlying medium, density fluctuations in a `Higgs condensate' are predicted to propagate for infinitely long wavelengths with a group velocity csc_s\to \infty . On the other hand, for any large but finite csc_s there is a weak, attractive 1/r1/r potential of strength 1cs2{{1}\over{c^2_s}} and the energy spectrum deviates from the purely massive form \sqrt{p}^2 + M^2_h} at momenta smaller than δMhcs\delta\sim {{M_h}\over{c_s}}. Physically, the length scale δ1\delta^{-1} corresponds to the mean free-path for the elementary constituents in the condensate and would naturally be placed in the millimeter range.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112227,
  title  = {A weak, attractive, long-range force in Higgs condensates},
  author = {M. Consoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112227},
  year   = {2009}
}

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