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What is the process that gives mass to free relativitic particles?
When a free particle move in space with a known momentum and energy then what is the physical process that gives mass to that free (relativistic) particle?
What is role does the Higgs field in that ...
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How to find the Higgs coupling with a mixing matrix?
It is known that the couplings to the Higgs are proportional to the mass for fermions;
$$g_{hff}=\frac{M_f}{v}$$
where $v$ is the VEV of the Higgs field. I'm trying to figure out why this is true ...
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Relation among anomaly, unitarity bound and renormalizability
There is something I'm not sure about that has come up in a comment to other question:
Why do we not have spin greater than 2?
It's a good question--- the violation of renormalizability is linked
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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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Field content and symmetry groups of Minimal Composite Higgs Models
I'm trying to teach myself the Composite Higgs Model, both its theory and its LHC phenomenology (particularly the 4DCHM). Unfortunately, I'm struggling; the literature is contradictory and/or omits ...
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Do all the particles acquire mass in the Standard Model due to the Higgs mechanism only?
I know that a mass term for an intermediate boson is not compatible with the gauge symmetry. But in principle a mass term for the electron field does not violate a gauge symmetry. However to build an ...
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In a composite Higgs, should the Z0 decay at the same rate that the neutral pion?
I am sorry to ask a question that obviously is a sum of separate questions about a process: Should the decay rate of Z0 be related to the decay of the "higgs" composite field it is eating? And, should ...
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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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Describing the Higgs mechanism to non-particle physicists
I'm sure I'm not the only person with this problem at the moment. I have been asked to give a public (not quite public, scientists, just not physicists) about 'this Higgs boson thing'. I am trying to ...
