Abstract
Despite the success of the Higgs mechanism to account for the generation of masses of the Standard Model (SM) elementary particles, the ultimate nature and origin of “mass” remain open questions in contemporary physics. From a foundational perspective, mass should be fundamentally related to the gravitational interaction and, according to Mach, with the structure of the Universe. In the present letter, a fully dynamical mass generation mechanism induced by higher-order corrections in the GR Lagrangian is discussed. Notably, the vacuum energy plays a key role in this process, which applies to both vector bosons and fermions. We show that, at the classical level, the Higgs mechanism can be though of as a particular case of the present mechanism.
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