2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48505We compute the Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective potential of a simplified version of the Standard Electroweak Model, where all charged boson fields as well as the bottom-quark field are neglected. The effective potential obtained in this formalism is gauge-independent. We derive from the effective potential the mass bound of the Higgs boson. The result is compared to its counterpart obtained from the ordinary effective potential.ltwol2e.tex, 6 pages; talk presented by G.-L. Lin at ICHEP98, 23-29 July 1998, Vancouver, CanadaHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext