Ultraviolet Complete Electroweak Model Without a Higgs Particle

TL;DR

This paper proposes an ultraviolet complete electroweak model that eliminates the Higgs particle, maintains unitarity at high energies, and predicts testable scattering amplitudes at the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a Higgsless electroweak model with energy-dependent couplings that is ultraviolet complete and consistent with observed symmetry breaking.

Findings

Avoids unitarity violations above 1 TeV

Compatible with electroweak symmetry breaking without a Higgs

Predicts scattering amplitudes testable at the LHC

Abstract

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 $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y \rightarrow U(1)_{\rm em}$, 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.