The Standard Model with Modified Asymmetric Potential

Abstract

We consider a version of special relativity assuming that the metric in inertial frames is conformally pseudoeuclidean and depends on some scalar field with zero vacuum average. Applying this modified special relativity to the theory of electroweak interactions, and assuming that the introduced scalar field is proportional to the Higgs field, we show there is full consistency between the minimal Standard Model and our approach, except that, in our model, the potential in the Higgs sector is asymmetric and has two distinct vacuum states. It is found that, in the new modified model the mass of the Higgs particle is half that in the minimal Standard Model.