# Origin of the Higgs field

Are there any attempts in the literature at addressing the origin of the Higgs field? And, which lines of research that find it inevitable to address this question?

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@Qmechanic I think there should be a "Higgs-Field" tag since there are models with higgs fields that do not acquire VEVs, and no higgs-boson is present. My question is a general one about the Higgs field itself, not the higgs boson, hence I didn't add the tag "Higgs-boson". – stupidity May 28 '12 at 18:54
Well, the Higgs field is a bosonic field. But you still have a valid point that it might be better to rename the 'Higg-boson' tag as simply a 'Higgs' tag, so that the tag could cover different aspects of the Higgs mechanism. – Qmechanic May 28 '12 at 19:02
I didn't say it's not a bosonic field. My suggestion is based on the fact that the Higgs-boson usually refers to the massive scalar not the Higgs field. And thanks for considering my suggestion. – stupidity May 28 '12 at 19:12

So one simply has a Higgs doublet of fields, $h_1(x,y,z,t)$ and $h_2(x,y,z,t)$, at each point of the spacetime. They're quantum fields (with hats) which means that the energy carried in the waves upon these fields is quantized (it is effectively composed of particles).