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Higgs boson/field symmetries and local symmetries
In the SM with gauge group U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3), those factors are associated to the gauge bosons associated with a local symmetry and the Higgs field provides masses to the elementary fermions AND the ...
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Higgs VEV in terms of measurements on an ensemble?
Let $A$ be a Hermitian operator corresponding to some observable. If we prepare $N$ identical systems in the state $\psi$ and measure this observable in each system, the average of the measurements ...
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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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The theory of strings stretching between intersecting D-branes
I am trying to understand various aspects of intersecting D-branes in terms of the gauge theories on the worldvolume of the D-branes. One thing I'd like to understand is the worldvolume action for ...
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why drag cause mass in higgs field ? how could drag cause mass?
why in higgs field drag cause mass?
drag is force in general not mass
Higgs field- Inquiring Minds - Questions About Physics
how drag of higgs field cause mass?
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Topological Solitons and the Higgs Condensate entanglement
While focusing on resolutions to the Firewall controversy, and the possible implications of the Higgs field as it relates to the issue, the possibility of using EPR correlations in the Higgs ...
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Is the heat required to alter the Higgs field an 'absolute heat'?
I have read and heard that manipulating the Higgs field would require heating up a local geometry to ridiculous temperature. I am trying to understand if there are stars or places in the universe ...
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Showing the equivalence of lagrangians?
I have a lagrangian written as:
$$\mathcal{L}_H = \text{Tr}\left[\,(D_\mu \Phi)^\dagger D^\mu \Phi\right] - \mu^2 \text{Tr}\left[\,\Phi^\dagger \Phi\right] - \lambda (\text{Tr}\left[\,\Phi^\dagger ...
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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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What is the expectation value of the number operator when the vacuum has a VEV?
The number operator N applied to a field whose vacuum has zero VEV gives $N|0>=0$. What if we apply it to the Higgs field?
The background of this question is that in popular scientific accounts, ...
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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 ...
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Higgs field existence and zero energy
If the Higgs field permeates all space, why some claim, that total universe energy equals (or is very close to) zero?
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Higgs Field - Is its discovery truly “around the corner”?
Rather surprised I haven't seen many questions or discussion regarding the rumored confirmation of the Higgs field. As I understand it, the energies where they saw things were actually quite a bit ...
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How to interpret vacuum instability of Higgs potential
If the Higgs mass is in a certain range, the quartic self-coupling of the Higgs field becomes negative after renormalization group flow to a high energy scale, signalling an instability of the vacuum ...
