Timeline for Why does the Higgs field only couple to opposite-chiralities fermions?
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 5:28 | comment | added | user87745 | As always, Ron Maimon's answer is perfect. I would like to add that the fact that it is a coincidence that the Higgs doesn't couple to same chirality fermions in the standard model corresponds to the lepton number accidental symmetry of the standard model. The non-renormalizable term that Ron Maimon eluded to evidently breaks this accidental symmetry (i.e., steps out of the coincidental situation of the standard model) and the lepton number is no longer conserved. | |
| Nov 23, 2011 at 22:21 | vote | accept | Whelp | ||
| Nov 23, 2011 at 4:05 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | Incidentally, Wikipedia's articles on the Standard Model are in serious need of attention, if anybody would care to volunteer. | |
| Nov 21, 2011 at 11:38 | answer | added | Ron Maimon | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 20, 2011 at 14:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/138260856638156800 | ||
| Nov 20, 2011 at 10:02 | history | asked | Whelp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |