Further lattice evidence for a large rescaling of the Higgs condensate

Feb, 1999
14 pages
Published in:
  • Mod.Phys.Lett.A 14 (1999) 1673-1688
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Report number:
  • BARI-TH-329-99,
  • DE-FG05-92ER41031-49

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Abstract:
Using a high-statistics lattice simulation of the Ising limit of (λΦ4)4(\lambda \Phi^4)_4 theory, we have measured the susceptibility and propagator in the broken phase. We confirm our earlier finding of a discrepancy between the field re-scaling implied by the propagator data and that implied by the susceptibility. The discrepancy becomes {\it worse} as one goes closer to the continuum limit; thus, it cannot be explained by residual perturbative effects. The data are consistent with an unconventional description of symmetry breaking and ``triviality'' in which the re-scaling factor for the finite-momentum fluctuations tends to unity, but the re-scaling factor for the condensate becomes larger and larger as one approaches the continuum limit. In the Standard Model this changes the interpretation of the Fermi-constant scale and its relation to the Higgs mass.
  • phi**n model: 4
  • lattice field theory
  • susceptibility
  • propagator
  • Higgs particle: condensation
  • scaling
  • continuum limit
  • triviality
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo