No Primitive Lower Higgs Vacuum

The lower Higgs vacuum is not a primitive same-scope endpoint of the measured minimal Standard Model. A lower branch of a gauge-, scheme-, scale-, and matching-dependent effectivepotential representative is an admissible diagnostic, but endpoint standing begins only after the branch descends to a quotient-stable stability, lifetime, or richer-scope source certificate. The result does not deny the diagnostic use of RG-improved effective potentials or certificatedependent metastability claims. It denies the promotion of a lower effective-potential branch, as such, into primitive same-scope endpoint standing. High-scale minimal-SM continuation is treated as admissibility-relevant invariant-bundle content for lifetime verdicts, not as new physics and not as primitive branch standing. The paper further proves that same-domain route availability for Cmeta is exhausted in form. Every surviving route-available metastability protocol in the fixed target factors through the lifetime-route normal form Rlife; route availability itself neither generates endpoint standing nor revives primitive lower-branch standing. Standard metastability calculations are therefore classified rather than rejected: candidate protocols are assessed by route status, route-normal protocols are route-available, and only a closed singleton/lifetime certificate makes Cmeta standing-bearing. AASC is used as a mathematical constraint formalism for endpoint standing. Standard quantum field theory supplies the comparison arena: measured Higgs/top anchors, Nielsenidentity gauge control, RG and matching transport, high-scale vacuum-stability analyses, falsevacuum decay, finite-temperature electroweak thermodynamics, and electroweak-baryogenesis route conditions. The AASC contribution is the status calculus that separates diagnostic availability, quotient endpoint standing, singleton-certificate selection, same-scope deletion, route-form exhaustion, and richer-scope update. The theorem set has three endpoint outputs, together with one route-form exhaustion result: Survprim DT=0 HV,0[S2026](Clower) = 0, SelDT>0 HV,0 (Ccross) = 1, SurvDEWBG,0(EWBGSM) = 0. The accompanying route-form result separates candidate route protocols from route availability. For D = DT=0 HV,0[S2026], CandRouteD(Cmeta;P) ⇒ ρD route(P) ∈   DiagnosticOnly, RouteIncomplete, RouteNormal, TargetUpdate, StandingSmuggling  , and RouteAvailD(Cmeta;P) = 1 ⇒ NFlife(P) ↓ ∧ P ∼=D NFlife(P). This is a statement about same-domain route grammar, not standing closure. Thus the fixed measured Higgs target deletes primitive lower-branch standing while preserving metastability as a certificate-dependent endpoint class. The measured minimal Standard Model finite-temperature target selects crossover and deletes the same-scope first-order branch. The same-scope minimal- Standard-Model electroweak-baryogenesis route, understood as a successful observed-asymmetry production-and-preservation route, has no certified survivor because the required electroweak departure and adequate CP/source limbs are absent. The result does not deny conditional metastability calculations; it denies only the primitive claim-form that a raw lower branch itself has endpoint standing. Any successful lower-vacuum endpoint, first-order transition, or electroweak-baryogenesis route requires a richer-scope or singleton certificate with its own carrier, transport, descent, and witness burdens.