Electroweak symmetry breaking without Higgs boson?

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The discussion centers on Xavier Calmet's paper titled "Asymptotically safe weak interactions," which proposes that electroweak interactions can occur without a Higgs boson, suggesting the Higgs field may merely act as a dressing field rather than a propagating particle. This theory posits that electroweak interactions could be renormalizable at a non-perturbative level due to a non-trivial fixed point, restoring tree-level unitarity in electroweak boson scattering through the running of the weak scale. The implications of this theory could significantly impact future physics research, particularly concerning the LHC, hierarchy problem, fine-tuning, and theories such as SUSY and string theory.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5529
Asymptotically safe weak interactions
Xavier Calmet
(Submitted on 26 Dec 2010)
"We emphasize that the electroweak interactions without a Higgs boson are very similar to quantum general relativity. The Higgs field could just be a dressing field and might not exist as a propagating particle. In that interpretation, the electroweak interactions without a Higgs boson could be renormalizable at the non-perturbative level because of a non-trivial fixed point. Tree-level unitarity in electroweak bosons scattering is restored by the running of the weak scale."

What is a dressing field?

Could this paper be correct? If true, what would it mean for the LHC, hierarchy problem, fine-tuning, higgs quadratic radiative corrections, SUSY, strings, and future physics research and QG?
 
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