W boson mass anomaly and noncontractibility of the physical space

TL;DR

This paper proposes a non-Higgs theory of noncontractible space that better explains the W boson mass anomaly observed by the CDF II detector than the Standard Model.

Contribution

It introduces a novel non-Higgs theoretical framework that accounts for the W boson mass measurement discrepancy.

Findings

The noncontractible space theory aligns more closely with the CDF II W mass measurement.

One-loop corrections in this theory improve agreement with experimental data.

The approach challenges the necessity of the Higgs boson for explaining W mass.

Abstract

The CDF II detector at the Tevatron collider reported significant tension between the measurement of the W boson mass and the Standard Model prediction, assuming that 125 GeV scalar discovered at the LHC is the Higgs boson. We calculate one loop corrections to the W boson mass within the theory of noncontractible space without the Higgs boson. It turns out that our theory provides better agreement with the CDF II detector result than the Standard Model.