Some remarks about the baffling Higgs physics and the particle mass problem

TL;DR

This paper proposes a statistical model linking Z^0 mass to neutrino vacuum screening and explores alternative explanations for fermion masses, challenging the traditional Higgs mechanism with insights from electron substructure theories.

Contribution

It introduces a novel statistical model for Z^0 mass and examines electron substructure to propose a Higgs-less explanation for fermion masses.

Findings

Z^0 mass may originate from neutrino vacuum screening.

Electrons behave as extended charge distributions at low energies.

Potential alternative to Higgs mechanism for fermion mass origin.

Abstract

A statistical model is proposed which ascribes the Z^0 mass to the screening properties of the neutrino Fermi sea (neutrino vacuum). Concerning the fermion masses, some puzzling features of the Higgs mechanism are examined. Arguments are advanced, based on the Zitterbevegung theory of the electron substructure, showing that in low energy experiments electron behaves as an extended distribution of charge, though its size comes out less than 10^-16 cm in high energy experiments. This might be a clue for explaining the origin of fermion masses without resorting to Higgs field.