Particle mass generation from physical vacuum

TL;DR

This paper proposes a Higgsless model where particle masses arise from interactions with a physical vacuum treated as a medium, successfully predicting known mass spectra and explaining empirical relations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Higgsless framework for particle mass generation using vacuum interactions, aligning with experimental data and explaining existing empirical relations.

Findings

Masses of fermions and gauge bosons are consistent with experimental values.

Left-handed neutrinos are predicted to be massive.

An empirical relation between top quark and gauge boson masses is explained.

Abstract

We present an approach for particle mass generation in which the physical vacuum is assumed as a medium at zero temperature and where the dynamics of the vacuum is described by the Standard Model without the Higgs sector. In this approach fermions acquire masses from interactions with vacuum and gauge bosons from charge fluctuations of vacuum. The obtained results are consistent with the physical mass spectrum, in such a manner that left-handed neutrinos are massive. Masses of electroweak gauge bosons are properly predicted in terms of experimental fermion masses and running coupling constants of strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions. An existing empirical relation between the top quark mass and the electroweak gauge boson masses is explained by means of this approach.