Higgs as (Pseudo-) Goldstone Particles
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- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics
- Vol. 75 (3) , 664-676
- https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.75.664
Abstract
Higgs scalars may be (pseudo-) Goldstone particles related to a spontaneous breakdown of a global symmetry which contains grand unified gauge group as a subgroup. This hypothesis gives severe constraint on possible form of Higgs mass terms in a framework of supersymmetric grand unified theories coupled to N=1 supergravity. Remarkably, their tree level mass terms, both supersymmetric and soft-breaking, are definitely given by gravitino mass m3/2 and do not depend on a detailed structure of a superpotential of GUT sector. These mass terms are best desirable for the relatively light top quark (mt≲50 GeV) suggested at CERN to be active in the radiative SU(2)×U(1) breaking scenario.Keywords
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