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What is the Standard Model Higgs ?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

It is shown that in the Standard Model, the property of charge quantization holds for a Higgs with arbitrary isospin and hypercharge. These defining quantum numbers of the Higgs remain unconstrained while the whole basic and fundamental structure of the Standard Model remains intact. Hence it is shown that the Higgs cannot be a physical particle. Higgs is the underlying `vacuum' over which the whole edifice of the Standard Model stands.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912243,
  title  = {What is the Standard Model Higgs ?},
  author = {Afsar Abbas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912243},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex file, 9 pages, no figures

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