A Troublesome Experts' Opinion on the Recent Higgs Detection

Home Contact Me

 



The following lines show what experts have said on the Higgs boson physical properties. The discussion refers to the 125 GeV particle which has recently been detected in the LHC experiments.

The Higgs two-photon decay. The prestigious journal Physics Reports has published a review article where the two-photon Higgs decay is discussed. (See A. Djouadi, Phys. Rep. 457, 1 (2008) or its arXiv version here). This review article states: "The decay of the SM Higgs boson into two photons is mediated by W boson and heavy charged fermion loops" and that "the W amplitude is always dominant". These statements indicate that a reliable scientific understanding of the W boson interaction with photons is mandatory for the Higgs interpretation of the LHC 125 GeV particle.

Electromagnetic interactions of the W boson. There is a general agreement that a self-consistent quantum theory should be derived from a regular Lagrangian density [1,2]. This approach is very successful for a Dirac particle, like the electron and the muon. By contrast, the W electromagnetic interactions are written in terms of an effective expression (see [3], eq. (2.1)). As of today, this effective expression continues to be used, for example by the LHC people themselves [4]. The meaning of using an effective expression for the W's electromagnetic interaction is that there is still no theoretically valid expression that represents this interaction.

Conclusion. The claim that the LHC 125 GeV particle is a Higgs boson has no scientific basis whatsoever.

For reading a scientific article which describes about half a dozen of different errors of the Higgs theory click here.

A correspondence between E. Comay and a Standard Model supporter shows that he indirectly admits that SM has no acceptable expression for the electromagnetic interaction of the electroweak W boson. For reading this correspondence, click here.

References:

[1] S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).

[2] M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass., 1995)

[3] K. Hagiwara, R.D. Peccei, D. Zeppenfeld and K. Hikaso, Nuc. Phys. B282, 253 (1987).

[4] G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B712, 289 (2012).