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Why do some particles have a greater mass than others?
The property of mass that almost every particle possesses comes from the Higgs Field. It is this field, which permeates all of space, that particles interact with and hence obtain mass.
But why do ...
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why are two higgs doublets required in SUSY?
I can't really understand why two higgs doublets are required in SUSY.
From the literature, I have found opaque explanations that say something along the lines of: the superpotential W must be a ...
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Could one theoretically build the Higgs equivalent of a Faraday cage?
My understanding is, within quantum mechanics, in a pure vacuum, all known fields have a lowest energy state of zero. The Higgs field is the only exception -- it's lowest energy state is not zero. ...
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do Higgs Bosons happen in nature all the time? Rarely? Or do they only happen when the Higgs field is excited in a particle accelerator?
I'm trying to reconcile an apparent contradiction between explanations given by Dr. Cox in 2009 and 2012, and those given by a panel of Berkeley professors.
I'm not a physicist, and so I realize this ...
