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Dilaton as the Higgs boson

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We propose a model where the role of the electroweak Higgs field is played by the dilaton. The model contains terms which explicitly violate gauge invariance; however, it is shown that this violation is fictitious, so that the model is a consistent low-energy effective theory. In the simplest version of the idea the resulting low-energy effective theory is the same as the top mode standard model.

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  1. School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia

    Robert Foot & Archil Kobakhidze

  2. Theory Group, TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada

    Kristian L. McDonald

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Foot, R., Kobakhidze, A. & McDonald, K.L. Dilaton as the Higgs boson. Eur. Phys. J. C 68, 421–424 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1368-5

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