arXiv:2407.06640·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Higgs-like field interactions before symmetry breaking
Jerzy Paczos🇮🇹 · Szymon Cedrowski🇵🇱 · Krzysztof Turzyński🇵🇱 · Andrzej Dragan🇵🇱
Abstract
We investigate the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking and show that, before symmetry breaking, the interaction of Higgs fields with massless gauge fields leads to the production of particles with negative squared mass.
Comments: 4+2 pages; published in Nuclear Physics B