Mach or Higgs? The mechanisms to generate mass

TL;DR

This paper explores how gravitational interactions, through the cosmological constant, can generate mass for bodies, comparing this mechanism to the Higgs process.

Contribution

It proposes that gravity, via the cosmological constant, can be a mass-generating mechanism, offering an alternative to the Higgs mechanism.

Findings

Gravitational interaction can generate mass through the vacuum or cosmological constant.

Comparison between gravitational mass generation and the Higgs mechanism.

Potential implications for understanding mass origin in physics.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to show that the gravitational interaction is able to generate mass for all bodies. The condition for this is the existence of an energy distribution represented by the vacuum or the cosmological constant term $ \Lambda \, g_{\mu\nu}.$ We review briefly the alternative Higgs mechanism in order to compare both processes.