Epstein Secrets

usible explanation does exist—first due to Steve Weinberg—though it is speculative and re- lies on speculat

be correct. Things got more interesting when the LHC reported a tantalizing pos- sible signal due to a new particle about six times heavier than the Higgs particle. This particle did not have the characteristics one would expect for any supersymmetric partner of ordinary matter. In general the most e

ible scalar fields in nature. What about the Standard Model Higgs field? Could it play a role in all of these current cosmic shenanigans? Could the Higgs field store energy and be responsible for inflation either in the early universe or now? Could the Higgs field not be in its final ground state, an

r than light, ulti- mately disappearing from our horizon, leaving the universe cold, dark, and largely empty—the future that may result because of a Higgs field with a mass its times the mass of the proton could be far worse. For a Higgs mass coinciding with the allowed range of the observed 2P_Gleal

tain the spurious gauge dependence. The Coleman-Weinberg effective action l'aff and effective potential V

t be high. lint x 2 x 1016 GeV. Higgs Inflation generally predicts a small amplitude of tensor perturbations. and therefore it is natural to ask if Higgs Inflation might accommodate this new measurement. We find the answer is essentially no, unless one considers either extreme fine tuning. or possibly

well-known vacuum stability problem of the Standard Model [26]. Successful HI requires an O(2e) deviation from central values toward either larger Higgs boson mass or smaller top quark mass. Gauge dependence enters the calculation at two places: ex- plicitly in the one-loop correction to the effectiv

tain the spurious gauge dependence. The Coleman-Weinberg effective action f eff and effective potential V

t be high, Via Az 2 x 101° GeV. Higgs Inflation generally predicts a small amplitude of tensor perturbations. and therefore it is natural to ask if Higgs Inflation might accommodate this new measurement. We find the answer is essentially no. unless one considers either extreme fine tuning. or possibly

well-known vacuum stability problem of the Standard Model [26). Successful HI requires an O(2o) deviation from central values toward either larger Higgs boson mass or smaller top quark mass. Gauge dependence enters the calculation at two places: ex- plicitly in the one-loop correction to the effectiv

t with the *226 defense by decid- ing after two years that it wanted a new ex- pert. Id. The court also denied as premature Fell's motion to exclude Weiner's testi- mony, holding that the nature and scope of Webees anticipated rebuttal testimony was unclear but that, even without interviewing Fell, hi

factors concerning sentencing." Id. Accordingly, the court declined to rule on admissibility prior to the government's disclosure of the scope of Weiner's projected testimony. Pursuant to the court's April 7 2005 or- der, Wetzel interviewed Fell and prepared a report explaining his findings. Fell, 2

States. G Bourgeois, 423 F.3d 50 1 507-08 (5th tr.2005) cert. ,i denied, 547 U.S. 1132, 126 S.Ct. 2026, 1 4 L.Ed.2d 786 (2006); United States . Higgs, 353 F.3d 281, 298 (4th Cir.200 , cert. dente 4 543 U.S. 999, 125 S.Ct. 62 , 160 L.Ed.2d 456 (2004). FN27. Fell contends that he raised this issu

t at the summer school in 1960, he began to study the literature on symmetry and symmetry breaking, examin- ing the work of Nambu, Goldstone, Salam, Weinberg, and Anderson. Higgs became depressed by the seemingly hopeless task of reconciling Goldstone's theorem with the possibility of massive Yang-Mills

s would leave only the photon left over as a massless gauge boson. But there's more. By virtue of the gauge symmetry he introduced, Weinberg's new Higgs particle would also interact with electrons, and when the condensate formed, the effect would be to give electrons a mass as well as the W and Z pa

a revolutionary. But reluctant revolutionary he was, although, due to some shortsighted journal editors, he almost didn't get the chance. In 1960 Higgs had just taken up his post and had been asked to serve on the committee that coordinated the first Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics.