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Dilaton as the Higgs particle Saadi, Hassan

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This essay focuses on exploring dilatons as an alternate model to the Higgs mechanism. An introductory analysis to the Higgs mechanism, effective potential method, and dilatons is provided. Then, three different models are explored on how to obtain a light dilaton that emerges as a pseudo Goldstone boson because of the spontaneously broken approximate scale invariance. This light dilaton is shown to have properties that are, in general, similar to the Higgs boson with minor differences that can differentiate between the two models in collider experiments.

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