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Dispersive determination of electroweak-scale masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-09-08 v3

Abstract

We demonstrate that the Higgs boson mass can be extracted from the dispersion relation obeyed by the correlation function of two bb-quark scalar currents. The solution to the dispersion relation with the input from the perturbative evaluation of the correlation function up to next-to-leading order in QCD and with the bb quark mass mb=4.43m_b=4.43 GeV demands a specific Higgs mass 114 GeV. Our observation offers an alternative resolution to the long-standing fine-tuning problem of the Standard Model (SM): the Higgs mass is determined dynamically for the internal consistency of the SM. The similar formalism, as applied to the correlation function of two bb-quark vector currents with the same mbm_b, leads to the ZZ boson mass 90.8 GeV. This solution exists only when the ZZ and WW boson masses are proportionate, conforming to the Higgs mechanism of the electroweak symmetry breaking. We then consider the mixing between the QuˉQ\bar u and Qˉu\bar Qu states for a fictitious heavy quark QQ and a uu quark through the bbˉb\bar b channel, inspired by our earlier analysis of neutral meson mixing. Its dispersion relation, given the perturbative input from the responsible box diagrams and the same mbm_b, fixes the top quark mass 176 GeV. It is highly nontrivial to predict the above electroweak-scale masses with at most 9\% deviation from their measured values using the single parameter mbm_b. More accurate results are expected, as more precise perturbative inputs are adopted.

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@article{arxiv.2304.05921,
  title  = {Dispersive determination of electroweak-scale masses},
  author = {Hsiang-nan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05921},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures, version to appear in Physical Review D

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