Timeline for Symmetry group describing the electroweak interaction
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| S Jun 25, 2020 at 11:20 | history | bounty ended | AWanderingMind | ||
| S Jun 25, 2020 at 11:20 | history | notice removed | AWanderingMind | ||
| Jun 25, 2020 at 8:48 | vote | accept | AWanderingMind | ||
| Jun 24, 2020 at 11:57 | answer | added | AccidentalFourierTransform | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jun 24, 2020 at 11:19 | history | bounty started | AWanderingMind | ||
| S Jun 24, 2020 at 11:19 | history | notice added | AWanderingMind | Draw attention | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 10:44 | comment | added | MBolin | Actually a gauge symmetry cannot be broken: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…. I think what is broken in the electroweak theory is a global symmetry, so your vacuum and excited states are not $SU(2)$-symmetric, but gauge symmetry is still there. | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 11:29 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 11:25 | history | edited | AWanderingMind | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 11:20 | comment | added | MBolin | Actually the symmetry itself is not broken, so you still have $SU(2)_L$ at room temperature. When people say that "it is broken" they mean it is realized in a non-linear manner, or that the groundstate is not $SU(2)_L$-symmetric. Related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/220760 | |
| Jun 22, 2020 at 11:16 | history | asked | AWanderingMind | CC BY-SA 4.0 |