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Higgs stability in Standard Model
I am a little unclear on what ramifications a negative quartic at high energies has on our world at low energies.
(1) First of all, is it that there is a second, isolated minimum that appears at ...
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Higgs Boson: The Big Picture
First, please pardon the ignorance behind this question. I know a fair amount of math but almost no physics.
I'm hoping someone can give me a brief "big picture" explanation of how physicists were ...
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Do particles gain mass only at energy levels found during the big bang?
I am trying to make sure my understanding is correct.
At energies and temperatures found during the big bang (or at CERN recently), the Higgs mechanism comes into effect. When it does, there is a ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
