Coleman-Weinberg Symmetry Breaking and Higgs Physics

Abstract

The Higgs mechanism, at the origin of particle masses in the Standard Model, may be a quantum phenomenon. As we show, it can be triggered by quantum loops events though the classical potential has no mass scale (scale invariant). This is opposed to the Standard Model approach, where a negative mass is included in the potential. In this work, not only we make a qualitative study, but pursue some quantitative calculus by retrieving the value of the Higgs mass. Finally, we discuss new physics which this new formalism can attempt to address