The anomalous shift of the weak boson mass and the quintessence electroweak axion

Abstract

One of the simplest ways to account for the observed W-boson mass shift is to introduce the $SU(2{)}_L$ triplet Higgs boson with zero hypercharge, whose vacuum expectation value is about 3 GeV. If the triplet is heavy enough at $\mathcal{O}(1)$ TeV, it essentially contributes only to $T$ parameter without any conflict to the observation. The presence of a complex triplet Higgs boson raises the $SU(2{)}_L$ gauge coupling constant to ${\alpha }_2(M_{\mathrm{PL}})\simeq 1/44$ at the Planck scale. Thanks to this larger gauge coupling constant, we show that the electroweak axion vacuum energy explains the observed cosmological constant provided that the axion field is located near the hill top of the potential at present.

6 pages, 1 figure, corrected typos, version to appear in "Communications in Theoretical Physics"

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