Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs boson mass — mentioned by noslenwerdna

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:23:41 GMT

Asymptotic Safety also predicted the higgs mass (126 GeV vs the measured value of 125 GeV). https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0208 The trick is, at that time most of the possible mass range was excluded experimentally, so it is a bit less impressive. I'm not sure how much tuning went into it (possibly none)

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Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs boson mass — mentioned by mpauly

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 10:35:38 GMT

The central concept behind Christof Wetterich's proposal is scale invariance: Imagine you try to measure the size of the universe with a yard stick. If you measure that the universe is expanding, you can't be sure that it really is the universe expanding, or maybe just your yard stick shrinking. This is true in so-called scale invariant theories. These theories do not contain any intrinsic length scale. The moment your theory contains a fundamental length l you break scale invariance. In this case you are able to compare your yard stick to the length l to find out if your yard stick was…

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Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs boson mass — mentioned by noslenwerdna

Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs boson mass — mentioned by mpauly