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Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 417–420 (1979)

Cosmological Origin of the Grand-Unification Mass Scale

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R. Brout and F. Englert
Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

P. Spindel
Université de l'Etat à Mons, Mons, Belgium

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Received 2 April 1979; published in the issue dated 6 August 1979

The origin of the universe as a quantum phenomenon leads to a self-consistently generated space-time structure in which the mass of the created particles is O(κ-1/2). We interpret the origin of the universe as a phase transition in which the grand unified symmetry is spontaneously broken.

© 1979 The American Physical Society

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Erratum: R. Brout, F. Englert, and P. Spindel, Cosmological Origin of Grand-Unification Mass Scale., Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 890 (1979).