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Bounds on particle masses in the Weinberg-Salam model

Physics Letters BPublished 1 March 1979
H. David Politzer, Stephen Wolfram
Citations172
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Abstract

Various conditions necessary for the self-consistency of the Weinberg-Salam model are used to place constraints on fermion and Higgs Boson masses. We find that spontaneous symmetry breakdown cannot generate fermion masses in excess of about 300 GeV.

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Physics and Astronomy