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Viable range of the mass scale of the standard model

1998; American Physical Society; Volume: 57; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevd.57.5480

1538-4500

Vivek Agrawal, S. M. Barr, John F. Donoghue, D. Seckel,

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

In theories in which different regions of the universe can have different values of the the physical parameters, we would naturally find ourselves in a region which has parameters favorable for life. We explore the range of anthropically allowed values of the mass parameter in the Higgs potential, $\mu^2$. For $\mu^2 0$, baryon stability requires that $|\mu|<<M_P$, the Planck Mass. Smaller values of $|\mu^2|$ may or may not be allowed depending on issues of element synthesis and stellar evolution. We conclude that the observed value of $\mu^2$ is reasonably typical of the anthropically allowed range, and that anthropic arguments provide a plausible explanation for the closeness of the QCD scale and the weak scale.