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Ultraviolet complete electroweak model without a Higgs particle

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An electroweak model with running coupling constants described by an energy dependent entire function is utraviolet complete and avoids unitarity violations for energies above 1 TeV. The action contains no physical scalar fields and no Higgs particle and the physical electroweak model fields are local and satisfy microcausality. The W and Z masses are compatible with a symmetry breaking SU(2)L×U(1)Y \( \rightarrow\) U(1)em , which retains a massless photon. The vertex couplings possess an energy scale \( \Lambda_{W}^{}\) > 1 TeV predicting scattering amplitudes that can be tested at the LHC.

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Moffat, J.W. Ultraviolet complete electroweak model without a Higgs particle. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 126, 53 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11053-5

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