A particle that emerges from the theoretical mechanism that is thought to give other particles mass.
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practical applications (future or present) from the Higgs Boson particle? [duplicate]
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What practical applications, future or present, can come from the results of the Higgs Boson particle?
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Why did Standard Model never sense a requirement to include gravitational quantum?
Standard Model is advanced version of Quantum physics. It tried to include everything which came in the way while understanding quantum world. It even didn't bother to include even Higgs Boson which ...
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Is the Higgs mechanism a fundamental interaction?
Is the Higgs mechanism a fundamental interaction of the same standing as the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions? If not, is it mediated by the weak interaction? It seems that all the ...
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Does field energy create rest mass in QFT theories?
The central importance of Higgs boson would be that the Higgs mechanism gives rest mass to fundamental particles. It seems like a very natural argument that fundamental particles need to be given ...
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Higgs Boson - Altering mass, practical applications [duplicate]
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Very much a layman. I need a layman's answer.
I read in an article that, with the discovery of the Higgs Boson, we should able ...
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Higgs field questions
The Wikipedia article about Higgs field poses some questions to me.
The article says that the Higgs field is a "nonthermal" field, a field whose energy does not decrease as the universe expands, ...
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What happens to matter in a standard model with zero Higgs VEV?
Suppose you reset the parameters of the standard model so that the Higgs field average value is zero in the vacuum, what would happen to standard matter?
If the fundamental fermions go from a finite ...
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How do you find spin of a particle from experimental data?
So I was wondering, with all this Higgs talk going on, they just detected a particle with a mass of 125 GeV (CMS) or 126.5 GeV (ATLAS). But they still don't know what it is, since there is tons of ...
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Evident for Higgs Boson is found by CERN. Provides explanation for mass, but what about mass of Higgs? [duplicate]
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How does Higgs Boson get the rest mass?
I understand the idea of the Higgs field providing mass property to other particles. My question is simple: what provides mass ...
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How does Higgs Boson get the rest mass?
Higgs Boson detected at LHC is massive. It has high relativistic mass means it has non-zero rest mass.
Higgs Boson gives other things rest mass. But, how does it get rest mass by itself?
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where we can find higgs boson particle
This weeks greatest news is the discovery of higgs boson like particle. My question is where higgs boson is found; whether it is found in both matter and antimatter or it is found only in matter, if ...
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How would the discovery of Higgs Boson affect superstring theories?
As we probably all know, a new particle similar to Higgs Boson has been discovered.
If this turns out to be true, standard model will get a boost (as the discovered mass almost equals to the ...
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Practical matter of the Higgs-Mechanism
My maybe very naive question is, of what practical importance will the discovery of the Higgs-Mechanism be for our technological advance in the near future?
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Measured Higgs mass and vacuum stability
There is such a thing, called "stability bound" on mass of the Higgs boson.
The basic idea (as I understand it) is that we take Higgs self-coupling, and calculate its renormalization running. And it ...
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Measuring tensor rank of the Higgs resonance
The Higgs boson is the first scalar field ever measured that is fundamental rather than composite. How do high-energy physicists determine that a given resonance in the statistics is either a scalar, ...
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Would the Standard Model allow two energetic photons to form a particle-like, zero-spin resonance?
The title is the question: Would the Standard Model allow two energetic photons to form a particle-like, zero-spin resonance?
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Why is Higgs Boson given the name “The God Particle”?
Higgs Boson (messenger particle of Higgs field) accounts for inertial mass, not gravitational mass.
So, how could it account for formation of universe as we know it today? I think, gravity accounts ...
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Is the Higgs a quantum field or a particle?
The Higgs is not detected in the asymptotic data, so it is possible that there is no particle interpretation for the Higgs quantum field. Indeed, the Higgs potential is only positive definite if the ...
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Which higgless models still predict a higgs-like resonance below the TeV scale? [closed]
Given today's announcement, I assume a bunch of wikipedia pages will need editing! The question is, which ones? Which higgless models still predict a resonance similar to the one observed by the ATLAS ...
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Why do we need Higgs field to re-explain mass, but not charge?
We already had definition of mass based on gravitational interactions since before Higgs. It's similar to charge which is defined based on electromagnetic interactions of particles.
Why did Higgs ...
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What does the discovery of Higgs boson mean for steady state theory?
The relationship between the steady state theory and the notion of Higgs boson is not clear to me. What does the discovery of Higgs boson mean for steady state theory? Or are the two ideas purely ...
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Higgs Boson - only little over GCSE physics? [closed]
According to http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/04/higgs-boson-discovered-live-coverage-cern, the reporter says that higgs boson things are little over GCSE physics. So, English learn a ...
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What does the discovery of the Higgs Boson mean for physics?
Will this unite some theories, or cause some other change in physics, and perhaps our undertanding of the universe?
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Higgs Boson mass in Electron volts?
Im no physics genius here, I was just interested in the Higgs Boson so I was reading this article : How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Break Physics
I came across this
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What does spin 0 mean exactly?
I heard two definitions:
(1) Spin 0 means that the particle has spherical symmetry, without any preferred axis.
(2) The spin value tells after which angle of rotation the wave function returns to ...
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Why are all observable gauge theories not vector-like?
Why are all observable gauge theories not vector-like?
Will this imply that the electron and/or fermions do not have mass?
How is this issue resolved?
Background:
The Standard Model is a ...
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Has the Higgs really been discovered at CERN?
Many news media round the world such as this http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=higgs-lhc have reported the possible discovery of the Higgs at CERN, to be announced at a conference on ...
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How does the Higgs Boson gain mass itself?
If the Higgs field gives mass to particles, and the Higgs boson itself has mass, does this mean there is some kind of self-interaction?
Also, does the Higgs Boson have zero rest mass and so move at ...
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What evidence is there for the electroweak higgs mechanism?
The wikipedia article on the Higgs mechanism states that there is overwhelming evidence for the electroweak higgs mechanism, but doesn't then back this up. What evidence is there?
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What can drive the higgs mass in mSUGRA up?
As a test to familiarize myself with the program softsusy, I generated a spectrum for the following (already excluded, but once considered) mSUGRA point: $m_0 = 170\,\mathrm{GeV}$, $m_{1/2} = ...
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Change in the Higgs mechanism
The most important thing about the Higgs mechanism is that the higgs mechanism is one of the simplest mechanisms (certainly the simplest way to break the electroweak symmetry) of elementary particles.
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Why is the mass of even the upper limit of the possible Higgs boson is less than the top quark?
On 7 March 2012, the DØ and CDF collaborations announced that, after analyzing the full data set from the Tevatron accelerator, they found excesses in their data that might be interpreted as coming ...
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Why Higgs particle is the root of all elementary particles?
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. It belongs to a class of particles known as bosons
What Will Happens If physicist Find ...
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Yukawa Coupling of a Scalar $SU(2)$ Triplet to a Left-Handed Fermionic $SU(2)$ Doublet
Suppose we have a field theory with a single complex scalar field $\phi$ and a single Dirac Fermion $\psi$, both massless. Let us write $\psi _L=\frac{1}{2}(1-\gamma ^5)\psi$. Then, the Yukawa ...
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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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125 Higgs is large (or small) for the MSSM?
As far I as I know, and from Naturalness considerations, a 125 GeV Higgs mass is rather large for the MSSM. This is because in the MSSM $$m_h^2 \lesssim M_z^2 \cos^22\beta + \Delta$$
Where $\Delta$ ...
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Higgs boson and quasiparticles
Do we know exactly the difference between particles and quasiparticles? Is Higgs boson a particle or a quasiparticle? I ask this because if I understood well, Higgs boson created by a spontaneaous ...
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How do physicists know that mass of possible Higgs particle is limited between two values?
How do physicists know that mass of possible Higgs particle is limited between two values 90 GeV/c$^2$ and 145 GeV/c$^2$?
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How does Higgs field relate to Aether theories?
I am an amateur learning about the Higgs because I was interested in what the LHC's purpose is.
I read that as a particle passes through space, it is actually passing through a Higgs field and there ...
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Where is the “true” higgs if the LHC 125 GeV signal is rather a higher dimensional radion than a SM higgs?
In this article, Lumo introduces and explains the idea (presented by the original authors in this paper) that the LHC signal at about 125 GeV could alternatively be interpreted as a higher ...
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Higgs mass and the hierarchy problem
I was wondering what is the opinion about importance of the hierarchy problem in the hep community? I'm still a student and I don't really understand, why there is so much attention around this issue. ...
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Why don’t photons interact with the Higgs field?
Why don’t photons interact with the Higgs field and hence remain massless?
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Why is the Higgs boson spin 0?
Why is the Higgs boson spin 0? Detailed equation-form answers would be great, but if possible, some explanation of the original logic behind this feature of the Higgs mechanism (e.g., "to provide ...
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How can a Higgs decay to heavier products than its mass?
How is it possible that a higgs at ~125 GeV can decay into 2 W bosons @ ~ 80 GeV a piece (for example)? Shouldn't a particle only be allowed to decay to lighter particles + energy?
Diagram copied ...
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What is the interaction with Higgs field(s) that give the quarks so much different masses?
The masses of quarks are:
mu 2∼3 MeV md 4∼6 MeV
mc 1.3 GeV ms 80∼130 MeV
mt 173 GeV mb 4∼5 GeV
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What's the difference between “evidence of a new particle” and “discovery of a new particle”?
Today’s exciting press release from Tevatron on the Higgs boson keeps its head cool and say that physicists saw a “hint” of the Higgs boson because the signal is barely above the two-sigma level. In ...
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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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Attempts to explain Higgs coupling as a gauge transformation symmetry
As is (supposedly) well known, Electromagnetic coupling can be "explained" as a closure term to a langrangian comprising a free Dirac field and a free vector field that are required to be invariant ...
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Could LEP II have discovered a 125GeV Higgs?
LEP II eliminated the Higgs up to 114.5GeV. If it had been run for longer could it have detected a Higgs at 125GeV?
I Googled for this without any luck, though I did find a comment that LEP II topped ...
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What are the advantages of the ILC over the LHC?
USA Today has an article on Japan's interest as the site for the $10 billion future International Linear Collider. This accelerator will utilize electron/positron collisions (like CERN's former LEP ...
