Open AccessCosmological Lower Bound on the Higgs-Boson Mass
Author(s) -
Alan H. Guth,
Erick J. Weinberg
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.45.1131
Subject(s) - physics , higgs boson , particle physics , boson , baryon , upper and lower bounds , supercooling , phase transition , symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Cosmological considerations imply that the Weinberg-Salam Higgs boson mass m/sub H/> or approx. =9 GeV. If this bound were violated, the symmetry-breaking phase transition would occur only after extreme supercooling, resulting in too high a ratio of entropy to baryon number.
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