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We describe a new approach towards the development of an entirely on-shell description of the bosonic electroweak sector of the Standard Model and the Higgs mechanism. We write down on-shell three particle amplitudes consistent with Poincaré invariance and little group covariance. Tree-level, four particle amplitudes are determined by demanding consistent factorization on all poles and correct UV behaviour. We present expressions for these 2 → 2 scattering amplitudes using massive spinor helicity variables. We show that on-shell consistency conditions suffice to derive relations between the masses of the W ±, Z , the Weinberg angle and the couplings. This provides a completely on-shell description of the Higgs mechanism without any reference to the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field.
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Bachu, B., Yelleshpur, A. On-shell electroweak sector and the Higgs mechanism. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 39 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)039
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