Minimal Higgs mechanism

Up to the present we have worked purely in a theory with mass generation by the minimal Higgs mechanism, i.e. in which (4.2.17) holds ... 

Let us suppose that the mass generation arises from a nori minimal Higgs mechanism and let us define (Ross and Veltman, 1975)... 

In discussing true radiative corrections we shall work strictly within the minimal SM in which the minimal Higgs mechanism generates the... 

We mentioned in Section 5.2 that the minimal Higgs mechanism can be tested, at Born level, by checking whether... 

Finally we consider the question of testing the minimal Higgs mechanism using data at the peak. In a non-minimal model eqns. (5.2.2) and (7.9.7) hold. It is easy to see that the lowest order non-minimal formula for the e+e - ff differential cross-section can be obtained from the higher order minimal formula (8.5.27) by the following replacement ... 

Finally, in anticipation of inclusion of higher order electroweak effects and of the testing of the minimal Higgs mechanism we replace G by the expression (5.1.2) involving e and sin vy for which it was just a shorthand notation in the above. 

The effect of the Higgs mechanism can be seen most clearly by minimizing the Lagrangian (251) with respect to A ... 

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