PIRSA:10050015

Rescuing the Standard Model in the case the Higgs Boson is not found

Ferrari, R. (2010). Rescuing the Standard Model in the case the Higgs Boson is not found. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/10050015

Ferrari, Ruggero. Rescuing the Standard Model in the case the Higgs Boson is not found. Perimeter Institute, May. 14, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10050015 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:10050015,
            doi = {10.48660/10050015},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10050015},
            author = {Ferrari, Ruggero},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Rescuing the Standard Model in the case the Higgs Boson is not found},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2010},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:10050015 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ruggero Ferrari

DOI 10.48660/10050015
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

A plethora of Higgsless models have been proposed and we are in the peculiar situation where Fermilab & LHC results will be extremely interesting whether or not the Higgs boson is found. I present here a model where one of the sacred assumption of quantum field theory (renormalizability) is dropped. A precise prescription for the removal of the divergences guarantees both unitarity and predictivity. Interestingly the model is consistent if the Power counting criterion is enforced in a weak form (Weak Power Counting). Among the novel features one notices an extra parameter (the ratio M_W/M_Z) but also a consistent accommodation of the Majorana neutrino mass.