The Higgs Sector
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, April 2003
Table of Contents
Title
Peter Higgs
F. Englert, R. Brout
Massless and Massive Spin One
Degrees of Freedom Book Keeping
Breaking Rotational Symmetry
What is the Nature of the Higgs Field ?
Precedents
Scalar Fields Elsewhere ...
Naturalness ...
Inverse Goldstone Theorem
Scalar Fields responsible for alpha(t)
Would have to be massless ...
Is that acceptable ?
Fine-tuning
The End
Author:
Gerard 't Hooft, Utrecht University
Email:
g.thooft@phys.uu.nl
Home Page:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft
