Abstract
It is shown that, for a wide range of top-quark masses, the Higgs mass in the canonical realization of the Salam-Weinberg theory must be ≲ 125 GeV. The considerations are predicated on the premise that the pure theory is a free-field theory. The bound emerges as a necessary condition, albeit within a specific scenario, to avoid the trap of a trivial Higgs sector.
- Received 9 December 1983
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.883
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