What does this research mean for the field?

The Higgs field is a collective mode of the QCD vacuum frozen as bulk non-uniformity during the electroweak transition, rather than a fundamental scalar, which resolves the hierarchy problem and explains particle mass hierarchies without fine-tuning. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

What question did this study set out to answer?

This research aims to clarify the nature of the Higgs field and its connection to mass hierarchies in particle physics.

June 8, 2026Open Access

Paper XII: The Higgs Field as Frozen Bulk Non-Uniformity

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This research aims to clarify the nature of the Higgs field and its connection to mass hierarchies in particle physics.
Theoretical analysis of the Higgs field dynamics during the Big Bang
Examination of the transitions between thermal equilibrium and non-uniformity
Resolution of the hierarchy problem through QCD scale
The Higgs field is a collective mode of the QCD vacuum frozen at the electroweak transition.
Masses of quarks and leptons are linked to the Higgs vacuum expectation value, explaining mass hierarchy seamlessly.
The Higgs mass is determined by the QCD scale, resolving the hierarchy problem without fine-tuning.

Abstract

The Higgs eld is proposed to be a relic of the Big Bang annihilation: frozen bulk non-uniformity that persists as the universe expands and cools. At temperatures T > TEW ∼100 GeV, the bulk was in thermal equilibrium and the non-uniformity was dynamical the Higgs was massless and the electroweak symmetry was unbroken. Below TEW, one conguration of the non-uniformity was frozen in, spontaneously selecting a vacuum expectation value v (t) ∝H (t) (7/2). The Yukawa couplings (quark and lepton masses) are proportional to the ratio of each particle's focal deceleration amplitude to the Higgs vev explaining the mass hierarchy without ne-tuning. The hierarchy problem (why mHiggs ≪MPl) is resolved because the Higgs mass is set by the QCD scale ΛQCD, not the Planck scale: the Higgs eld is not a fundamental scalar but a collective mode of the QCD vacuum frozen at the electroweak transition. Part of the One-Octonion Brane-Bulk Framework series. Anchor DOI: 10. 5281/zenodo. 19120873. Community: one-octonion-brane-bulk. Author: Bharathi Dasan Jagadeesan, M. D. , University of Minnesota. ORCID: 0000-0002-1143-941X.

Paper XII: The Higgs Field as Frozen Bulk Non-Uniformity

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