Chiral symmetry and the Higgs-boson-nucleon coupling.
Chiral symmetry and the Higgs-boson-nucleon coupling.
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10.1103/physrevd.38.2869
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1988-11
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Ta-Pei Cheng
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Ta-Pei Cheng
The chiral-symmetry-breaking sigma term as extracted from the pion-nucleon phase-shift and dispersion analysis implies that the Higgs boson coupling to the nucleon is dominated by the strange quarks. For sigma/sub ..pi..//sub N/approx. =60 MeV the strange-quark contribution is an order of magnitude larger than that of any other flavor. This significantly increases the Higgs-boson--nucleon coupling from its chiral-symmetric value. Some of the phenomenological consequences are briefly discussed. In particular I reanalyze the low-energy nuclear and atomic experimental evidence against the existence of a light scalar boson, and compare the bounds to those originally derived with the expectation that the nucleon consists mainly of the up and down quarks. A summary review of the various issues concerning a large ..pi..N sigma term is also provided.