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- Title
Towards a bound on the Higgs mass in causal set quantum gravity.
- Authors
de Brito, Gustavo P.; Eichhorn, Astrid; Fausten, Ludivine
- Abstract
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the mass of the Higgs particle can be linked to the scale at which the Standard Model breaks down due to a Landau pole/triviality problem: for a Higgs mass somewhat higher than the measured value, the Standard Model breaks down before the Planck scale. We take a first step towards investigating this relation in the context of causal set quantum gravity. We use a scalar-field propagator that carries the imprints of spacetime discreteness in a modified ultraviolet behavior that depends on a nonlocality scale. We investigate whether the modification can shift the scale of the Landau pole in a scalar field theory with quartic interaction. We discover that the modifications speed up the onset of the Landau pole considerably, so that the scale of new physics occurs roughly at the nonlocality scale. Our results call into question, whether a separation between the nonlocality scale and the discreteness scale, which is postulated within causal set quantum gravity, and which has been argued to give rise to phenomenological consequences, is in fact achievable. Methodologically, our paper is the first to apply continuum functional Renormalization Group techniques in the context of a causal-set inspired setting.
- Subjects
SCALAR field theory; PARTICLE physics; PLANCK scale; QUANTUM gravity; RENORMALIZATION group; BIOLOGICALLY inspired computing; STANDARD model (Nuclear physics); HIGGS bosons
- Publication
General Relativity & Gravitation, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
0001-7701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10714-023-03177-6