RT Journal Article
T1 Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism for accelerating observers
A1 Dobado González, Antonio
AB In this work we consider the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak SU(2)_(L) × U(1)_(Y) gauge group into U(1)_(em) taking place in the Standard Model of particle physics as seen from the point of view of an accelerating observer. According to the Unruh effect, that observer detects the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to the proper acceleration a. Then we show that (in a certain large N limit) when the acceleration is bigger than the critical value a_(c) = 4πv (where v is the Higgs vacuum expectation value), the electroweak SU(2)L × U(1)_(Y) gauge symmetry is restored and all elementary particles become massless. In addition, even observers with a  ˂ a_(c) can see this symmetry restoration in the region close to the Rindler horizon.
PB Amer Physical Soc
SN 2470-0010
YR 2017
FD 2017-10-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18542
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18542
LA eng
NO © 2017 American Physical Society. The author thanks E. Álvarez and R. Tarrach for triggering our interest in the problem considered in this work, L. Álvarez-Gaumé for comments concerning [10], C. Pajares for bringing to our attention Refs. [16,17] and for useful discussions, and J. A. Ruiz-Cembranos for reading the manuscript. This work is supported by Spanish Grants No. MINECO:FPA2014-53375-C2-1-P and No. FPA2016- 75654-C2-1-P.
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025