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Phenomenology of the neutral Higgs-boson in the Weinberg-Salam theory of the weak interactions

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:5197769
The thesis discusses the phenomenological aspects of the Higgs-boson H in the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam SU(2) circle X U(1) Standard Model of the weak interactions. The structures of familiar nonabelian gauge theories and the fermion mass matrix, including some of the latest analyses of the Kobayashi-Maskawa (K.M.) generalization of the Cabbibo and Glashow-IIiopoulons-Maiani (GIM) formulations of universal are reviewed. Some of the properties (coupling, mass, etc.) of the Higgs-boson including comments on some previous suggested reactions and decay modes for the Higgs-boson production in the Standard Model are presented. After the background is reviewed, there is discussion of the research done in the University of Pittsburgh, which includes: a new possible production mechanism for the neutral Higgs-boson in the Standard Model; an empirical lower bound for the mass of the Higgs boson by examining the K/sup +/-/..--> pi../sup +/-///sup +///sup -/ decays; and an investigation of the strong radiative correction to the Q..-->..qH vertex which is just a Sudakov form factor.
Research Organization:
Pittsburgh Univ., PA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5197769
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English