  We study effects of bulk mass on electroweak symmetry breaking and Higgs mass
in the scenario of five dimensional SU(3) gauge-Higgs unification defined on
M^4\times S^1/Z_2. The asymptotic form of effective potential for the Higgs
field is obtained, from which a transparent and useful expression for the Higgs
mass is found. The small vacuum expectation values (VEV) for Higgs field can be
realized by choosing bulk mass parameters approriately for a fixed set of
matter content. The bulk mass for periodic fermion field, in general, has
effects to make the Higgs mass less heavy. On the other hand, the bulk mass for
antiperiodic field does not directly affect the Higgs mass, but it contributes
to increase or decrease the Higgs mass, depending on how small the VEV is
induced due to the antiperiodic field. We give numerical examples to confirm
these effects, in which the role of the bulk mass is also definitely clear.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;High Energy Physics - Theory