Top quark and Higgs boson masses from wormhole physics
- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052 (Australia)
We bring together quantum field theory on [ital S][sub 4] with the Coleman wormhole hypothesis, which imposes constraints on terms in the gravitational Lagrangian. In particular, we investigate the effect of matter fields on the trace anomaly, which is related to the (curvature)[sup 2] terms, by the use of the renormalization group equations. We consider a toy model of a nonconformally coupled Higgs boson to a single top'' quark. By numerically solving the renormalization group equations for the couplings of the model, we can find preferred values of the particle masses for various values of the bare nonconformal coupling. By making the [ital ad] [ital hoc] assumption that the tree-level, Higgs boson treace anomaly vanishes on shell, a unique prediction can be made within this model for the masses of both the Higgs boson and the top quark.
- OSTI ID:
- 7170874
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 50:9; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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