How can a heavy Higgs boson be consistent with the precision electroweak measurements?

ME Peskin, JD Wells - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
The fit of precision electroweak data to the minimal standard model currently gives an upper
limit on the Higgs boson mass of 170 GeV at 95% confidence. Nevertheless, it is often said …

The Mass of the Higgs boson in the standard model from precision tests

PH Chankowski, S Pokorski - Physics Letters B, 1995 - Elsevier
The LEP data and the measurement of MW confirm the electroweak symmetry breaking by
the Higgs mechanism with (2–3)% accuracy. For the Higgs boson mass, fits to the present …

Limits on a composite Higgs boson

RS Chivukula, C Hoelbling, N Evans - Physical Review Letters, 2000 - APS
Precision electroweak data are generally believed to constrain the Higgs boson mass to lie
below approximately 190 GeV at 95% confidence level. The standard Higgs model is …

Electroweak precision tests of the Standard Model after the discovery of the Higgs boson

J Erler, M Schott - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
The global fit of the Standard Model predictions to electroweak precision data, which has
been routinely performed in the past decades by several groups, led to the prediction of the …

Update of the electroweak precision fit, interplay with Higgs-boson signal strengths and model-independent constraints on new physics

M Ciuchini, E Franco, S Mishima, M Pierini… - Nuclear and particle …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present updated global fits of the Standard Model and beyond to electroweak precision
data, taking into account recent progress in theoretical calculations and experimental …

Electroweak precision fit and new physics in light of the boson mass

CT Lu, L Wu, Y Wu, B Zhu - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The W boson mass is one of the most important electroweak precision observables for
testing the Standard Model (SM) or its extensions. The very recent measured W boson mass …

Indications from precision electroweak physics confront theoretical bounds on the mass of the Higgs boson

J Ellis, GL Fogli, E Lisi - Physics Letters B, 1996 - Elsevier
An updated fit to the precision electroweak data and to the direct measurement of the top
quark mass mt provides significant constraints on mt and on the Higgs boson mass MH: m …

Electroweak precision observables and Higgs-boson signal strengths in the Standard Model and beyond: present and future

J de Blas, M Ciuchini, E Franco, S Mishima… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We present results from a state-of-the-art fit of electroweak precision observables
and Higgs-boson signal-strength measurements performed using 7 and 8 TeV data from the …

Electroweak data and the Higgs boson mass: a case for new physics

MS Chanowitz - Physical review D, 2002 - APS
Because of two 3 σ anomalies, the standard model (SM) fit of the precision electroweak data
has a poor confidence level, CL= 0.010. Since both anomalies involve challenging …

Lilith: a tool for constraining new physics from Higgs measurements

J Bernon, B Dumont - The European Physical Journal C, 2015 - Springer
The properties of the observed Higgs boson with mass around 125 GeV can be affected in a
variety of ways by new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The wealth of …