Higgs-like field interactions before symmetry breaking
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2026-03-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We investigate the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking and show that, before symmetry breaking, the interaction of Higgs fields with massless gauge fields leads to the production of particles with negative squared mass.
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@article{arxiv.2407.06640,
title = {Higgs-like field interactions before symmetry breaking},
author = {Jerzy Paczos and Szymon Cedrowski and Krzysztof Turzyński and Andrzej Dragan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06640},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
4+2 pages; published in Nuclear Physics B