The Higgs Boson and The Fakeon Hypothesis

TL;DR

This paper explores implementing the fakeon hypothesis in particle physics by modeling the Higgs boson as a fakeon and analyzing its interactions with electroweak gauge bosons.

Contribution

It introduces a novel model where the Higgs is a fakeon and derives its specific interactions with gauge bosons, expanding the fakeon hypothesis application.

Findings

Higgs as the only fakeon in the model

Derived interactions between Higgs and gauge bosons

Analyzed conserved quantities of free fields

Abstract

In this paper, we make an attempt to implement the fakeon hypothesis in particle physics. To begin with, we consider a model in which the Higgs boson is the only fakeon. We deduce its interactions with the electroweak gauge bosons. Each such new interaction can be written as a product of two factors. The first one depends, on the electroweak gauge bosons and their derivatives. The second one solely depends, on the physical Higgs and its derivatives. We also study the conserved quantities of different (free) fields in this setting.