Probing the Higgs Field Using Massive Particles as Sources and Detectors

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dc.creatorReucroft, S.
dc.creatorSrivastava, Y. N.
dc.creatorSwain, J.
dc.creatorWidom, A.
dc.date2005-09-14
dc.date2005-10-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:43:35Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:43:35Z
dc.descriptionIn the Standard Model, all massive elementary particles acquire their masses by coupling to a background Higgs field with a non-zero vacuum expectation value. What is often overlooked is that each massive particle is also a source of the Higgs field. A given particle can in principle shift the mass of a neighboring particle. The mass shift effect goes beyond the usual perturbative Feynman diagram calculations which implicitly assume that the mass of each particle is rigidly fixed. Local mass shifts offer a unique handle on Higgs physics since they do not require the production of on-shell Higgs bosons. We provide theoretical estimates showing that the mass shift effect can be large and measurable, especially near pair threshold, at both the Tevatron and the LHC.
dc.description6 pages, no figures; Version 2 corrects some typographical errors of factors of 2 in equations 14, 17, 18 and 19 (all of the same origin) and mentions a linear collider as an interesting place to test the results of this paper
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0509151
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0509151
dc.identifierEur.Phys.J.C48:781-786,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0022-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201288
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleProbing the Higgs Field Using Massive Particles as Sources and Detectors
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