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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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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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What is difference between the different 'flavours' of neutrinos?
Moreover, how-come scientist know that muon-neutrino are different from electron-neutrino when they didn't even know what the difference was? Did they interact differently with other particles?
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Playground of Forces
Why is it that the gravitational force acts on large sized objects while the strong and weak nuclear forces act at subatomic levels only? What is that stops each other to enter each others domain?
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Weinberg angle measurement methods
I was reading up on the history of $W/Z$ bosons today and I got a little puzzled. I always assumed that people measured $M_Z$ and $M_W$ and then derived the Weinberg angle. But it appears that they ...
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What would the universe be like if Electroweak symmetry were unbroken? [duplicate]
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What happens to matter in a standard model with zero Higgs VEV?
What if the Higgs did not have a "Mexican hat" potential and the therefore it's vacuum expectation value ...
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Do color-neutral gluons exist?
If I'm correct a quark can change color by emitting a gluon. For example a blue up quark $u_b$ can change into a red up quark by emitting a gluon:
$$u_b \longrightarrow u_r + g_{b\overline{r}}$$
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Is there a relationship between Berry-Pancharatnam phase and CP violation in quark mixing?
Berry-Pancharatnam phase is the phase that quantum systems exhibit when they pass through a sequence of states and return to their original state. It's a complex phase and it is different from the ...
