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KindShowingImportancePrizesTopicElectroweak vacuum stability
Whether the Standard Model Higgs potential is absolutely stable or only metastable up to the Planck scale, given the measured Higgs-boson and top-quark masses: stability/metastability boundary calculations, renormalization-group extrapolation of the quartic coupling, and how measurement and theoretical uncertainties affect the verdict. Not collider vacuum-bubble risk debates (see LHC safety) and n
The Higgs quartic coupling runs negative near 10^10 to 10^11 GeV for central Standard Model parameters.
VerifiedThe evidence, examined directly, establishes the claim.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Particle physicsimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
No new physics modifies the Standard Model below the Higgs potential instability scale.
UnknownInsufficient information to assess.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Beyond the Standard ModelParticle physicsimportance · minorImportance 0.35, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
A high-energy particle collision could trigger the universe's vacuum to decay into a more stable state.
ContradictedThe evidence, examined directly, weighs against the claim.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Particle physicsLHC safetyimportance · minorImportance 0.35, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
The Standard Model electroweak vacuum is metastable rather than absolutely stable.
SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Particle physicsimportance · minorImportance 0.40, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Uncertainties in the top-quark mass leave absolute electroweak vacuum stability consistent with current measurements.
SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Particle physicsTop-quark massimportance · minorImportance 0.40, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Absolute electroweak vacuum stability requires a top-quark pole mass below about 171 GeV
VerifiedThe evidence, examined directly, establishes the claim.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Top-quark massParticle physicsimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
The predicted lifetime of the metastable electroweak vacuum vastly exceeds the current age of the universe.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Particle physicsimportance · settledImportance 0.20, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
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