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Cosmological considerations imply that the Weinberg-Salam Higgs boson mass mH9 GeV. If this bound were violated, the symmetry-breaking phase transition would occur only after extreme supercooling, resulting in too high a ratio of entropy to baryon number.
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Guth et al. (1980) studied this question.
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