Hierarchy and large scale ratio problem from degenerate vacua

by H.B. NIELSEN (CERN)

Thursday 11 Nov 1999, 14:00 → 14:15 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

We seek to show that requiring the existence of two (degenerate) minima in the effective Higgs field potential in a non-trivial way we get an explanation for the large scale ratio that is the mystery behind the hierarchy problem. The assumption of several degenerate minima - or vacua - is 1) an assumption we claim earlier to have had some phenemenological success with, 2) a phenemenon actually usually occurring in SUSY-models, 3) somewhat analogous to that a melting point temperature will much more often be found than any other specific temperature value, because it can be produced in slush, so to speak.