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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 77 No. 3 (1987) pp. 702-710

A Natural Mechanism for Generating the Electroweak Scale by Non-Perturbative Effects

Kenzi Tabata and Isao Umemura

Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606

(Received September 1, 1986)

Abstract:

Gauge hierarchies of a system are investigated in which the heavy (m_φ ≃m_GUT) Higgs scalar field φ(x) interacts with the gauge fields of the usual SU(2)_W ×U(1)_Y. Parameters of the Higgs potential modified by the one-loop correction of the gauge fields are examined so as to realize a potential desirable for generating gauge hierarchies, and therewith the effective action for the gauge fields (z_µ, w_µ^± and A_µ) is calculated in an approximate but analytic form by integrating all the quantum effects of the Higgs field.
It is shown that the weak gauge bosons, z_µ and w_µ^±, acquire in fact the hierarchically small masses generated by non-perturbative quantum effects of the Higgs field under the Higgs potential obtained, while the photon A_µ is left massless.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/77/702/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.77.702

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