The Higgs Mechanism and Spacetime Symmetry

Abstract

In this review, we summarize the results of the analysis of the inherent relation between the Higgs mechanism and spacetime symmetry provided by generic incorporation of the de Sitter vacuum as a false vacuum with the equation of state p=−ρ. This relation has been verified by the application for the interpretation of the experimental results on the negative mass squares for neutrinos, and of the appearance of the minimal length in the annihilation reaction e+e−→γγ(γ). An additional verification is expected for the dark matter candidates with the interior de Sitter vacuum of the GUT scale, whose predicted observational signatures include the induced proton decay in the matter of an underground detector, such as IceCUBE.

Editorial to the Special Issue “Selected Papers from the 17th Russian Gravitational Conference—International Conference on Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (RUSGRAV-17)”

“…In this Special Issue, the vacuum quantum effects in braneworlds on anti-de Sitter bulk are considered in [33]. Article [34] is devoted to a consideration of inherent relation between the Higgs mechanism and spacetime symmetry. The state of the art in constraining axion-to-nucleon coupling and non-Newtonian gravity from laboratory experiments in reviewed in [35].…”