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Higgs boson mass and electroweak energy scale
Is it a coincidence that the mass of the Higgs boson is exactly half the electroweak energy scale?
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What breaks the symmetry between the electromagnetic and weak nuclear force?
I know the electromagnetic force is mediated by a photon and the weak nuclear force is mediated by two massive bosons. Are there any other insights into why the masses are so different?
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Do any good theories exist on why the weak interaction is so profoundly chiral?
I find the profound asymmetry in the sensitivity of left and right chiral particles to be one of the most remarkable analytical observations captured in the Standard Model. Yet for some, I've not ...
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Weak isospin and types of weak charge
My understanding is that QCD has three color charges that are conserved as a result of global SU(3) invariance. What about SU(2) weak? Does it have two types of charges? What I'm getting at is:
U(1) ...
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Is the search for a Simple-group-based Electro-Weak theory over?
Just wondering:
We know that, in its current form of the $SU(2)_L\times U(1)$, the electroweak theroy rides a wave of huge success. However, is it not possible that the correct simple group ...
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CP-violation in weak and strong sectors
There is a possible CP-violating term in the strong sector of the standard model proportional to $\theta_\text{QCD}$. In the absence of this term, the strong interactions are CP-invariant. In the ...
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Hamiltonian of the charged current in SM (related to the lorentz invariance)
recently when I was studying the scatterings which involves a vector boson (like W boson) as an intermediate particle, I saw that the propagator is not Lorentz invariant, I read that there is another ...
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Why does the electron energy distribution from muon decay peak near the kinematic maximum?
I'm trying to understand why when you have a muon decay event, the energy of the electron peaks near the maximum kinematically allowed value. Is there an intuitive explanation for why this is the case ...
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Jarlskog Invariant and its mathematical origin
CP violation is present in the weak interactions if
There are no degeneracies in the up-quark/down-quark matrices
The Jarlskog invariant $J=Im(V_{us} V_{cb} V_{ub}^* V_{cs}^*)$ is nonvanishing
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How to show the oblique parameters S, T, and U are coefficients of d=6 operators
In Morii, Lim, Mukherjee, The Physics of the Standard Model and Beyond. 2004, ch. 8, they claim that the Peskin–Takeuchi oblique parameters S, T and U are in fact Wilson coefficients of certain ...
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What is the rate of B violation expected in the standard model during high energy collisions?
In a recent question Can colliders detect B violation? I asked about detecting B violation in collisions. Here I am interested in the theory aspect. (I asked both questions originally in the same ...
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mechanism of annihilation
Can the annihilation of matter and antimatter be explained by the electro-weak interaction?
Can pair-production be explained in the same way?
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Can the mass of longitudinal and transverse W bosons be measured separately?
Some higgsless unified models of particle physics predict that the mass of longitudinally polarized W bosons and the mass of transversely polarized W bosons are different.
In those models, a ...
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$WW\to t\bar{t}$ growth
I was told recently that "it is well known that processes like $WW\to t\bar{t}$ ($t$ being a top, or any massive fermion) grows linearly with the energy in the absence of an Higgs boson." Does anyone ...
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Why is there no theta-angle (topological term) for the weak interactions?
Why is there no analog for $\Theta_\text{QCD}$ for the weak interaction? Is this topological term generated? If not, why not? Is this related to the fact that $SU(2)_L$ is broken?
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If LHC searches of a Higgs boson won't be a success, what consequences for the theory of electroweak interaction it can bear?
Whether it is necessary to search still for variants of an explanation of spontaneously breaking gauge symmetry, giving masses for a W, Z-bosons?
Goldstone bosons are bosons that appear necessarily ...
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Might the LHC see nothing new at all?
There's no guarantee that supersymmetry (or more exotic new physics) will be seen at the LHC. Meanwhile, it's standard lore that a Higgsless standard model becomes nonunitary somewhere in the vicinity ...
