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The unit of electric charge and the mass hierarchy of heavy particles

G. Lopez Castro, J. Pestieau

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0609131

Abstract

We propose some empirical formulae relating the masses of the heaviest particles in the standard model (the W,Z,H bosons and the t quark) to the charge of the positron e and the Higgs condensate v. The relations for the masses of gauge bosons mW = (1+e)v/4 and mZ=sqrt(1+e2)/2*(v/2) are in excellent agreement with experimental values. By requiring the electroweak standard model to be free from quadratic divergencies at the one-loop level, we find: mt=v/sqrt2 and mH=v/sqrt2e, or the very simple ratio (mt/mH)2=e.

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