The Anthropic principle and the mass scale of the standard model
The Anthropic principle and the mass scale of the standard model
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.57.5480
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发表时间:
1997-07
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5
通讯作者:
V. Agrawal;S. Barr;J. Donoghue;D. Seckel
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作者:
V. Agrawal;S. Barr;J. Donoghue;D. Seckel
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, µ 2 . For µ 2 0, baryon stability requires that |µ| << MP, the Planck Mass. Smaller values of � µ 2 � may or may not be allowed depending on issues of element synthesis and stellar evolution. We conclude that the observed value of µ 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.