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- Title
Is the Higgs mechanism true to the equivalence principle?
- Authors
Unnikrishnan, C. S.; Gillies, George T.
- Abstract
In this paper, we raise and discuss the fundamental issue whether the interaction-induced inertia in the Higgs mechanism is the same as the charge of gravity or the gravitational mass. True physical mass has to fulfill the dual role of inertia and the gravitational charge, and should respect the weak equivalence principle. This is not yet addressed in the standard model that does not incorporate gravity. Hence, the Higgs scenario still requires a gravitational completion. Some relevant analogies where interaction-induced inertia is not the same as the gravitational charge are mentioned. Probing this line of thought will provide valuable clues and perhaps a remarkable answer to the place and role of gravity in the standard model of particle physics.
- Subjects
HIGGS bosons; EQUIVALENCE principle (Physics); PARTICLE interactions; GRAVITATIONAL mass; PARTICLE physics
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics D: Gravitation, Astrophysics & Cosmology, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 12, p-1
- ISSN
0218-2718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218271815440095