10.6084/m9.figshare.963489.v1
Tommy Anderberg
Tommy
Anderberg
The Forgotten Landscape
figshare
2014
electroweak
Higgs
low energy
eft
effective field theory
ssb
symmetry breaking
spontaneous symmetry breaking
gauge
field theory
Quantum field theory
qft
symmetry
Particle Physics
Computational Physics
Cosmology
2014-03-17 16:28:00
Journal contribution
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_Forgotten_Landscape/963489
<p>Essay as originally posted on FQXi, August 31, 2012 (http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1462). Abstract:</p>
<p>Contrary to common lore, the standard model of particle physics has a “landscape” of physically inequivalent vacua, most of them quite different from ours. I discuss some cosmological consequences and related observational constraints, show how non-perturbative electroweak dynamics selects our special vacuum, and put an old idea to rest.</p>