Scale invariance and broken electroweak symmetry may coexist together
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-01-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Here we show that local scale invariance -- invariance under Weyl rescalings -- may safely coexist with broken electroweak symmetry if assume the Weyl geometric theory to govern the affine structure of spacetime. We find that within the resulting scale invariant theory of gravity cosmological inflation is enough to explain the large hierarchy between the Higgs and Planck masses.
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@article{arxiv.1312.1018,
title = {Scale invariance and broken electroweak symmetry may coexist together},
author = {Israel Quiros},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1018},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures. Sustantial improvements: (i) the discussion on generation of mass hierarchy complemented with necessary statements about the measurable quantities in Weyl spaces, and (ii) unnecessary discussion on the coosmological constant, not relevant to the main focus of the paper removed