Submitted:
25 January 2021
Posted:
27 January 2021
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Abstract
The textbook analysis of vacuum energy density (VED) in flat spacetime follows from Pauli’s lectures of 1951, in which quantum vacuum is modeled as a reservoir of free harmonic oscillators. In his lectures, Pauli shows that deriving a nearly vanishing VED is contingent upon fulfilling three corollary conditions called polynomial-in-mass-constraints. The goal of this work is to evaluate Pauli’s constraints against the Standard Model parameters and the Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Keywords:
zero-point energy density
; vacuum energy density
; Standard Model parameters
; mass spectrum
; Renormalization Group flow
; Higgs mechanism
; cosmological constant problem
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