# Why we don't have macroscopic fields of Higgs bosons or gluons?

Why is it that there exists a classical macroscopic field of photons and gravitons but not that of $Z, W^{\pm}$ bosons, gluons or Higgs boson?

• Macroscopic photon and graviton fields can exist because these forces are long-ranged, which is directly related to the force carriers being massless. The $W$ and $Z$ bosons are extremely massive, so they're very short ranged and we can't see their effects on a macroscopic scale.
• Another problem is that classical macroscopic fields arise from quantum fields through coherent states, which require many particles. Since the $W$ and $Z$ are so heavy, this is impossible at everyday energies.
• The Higgs boson is massive, but there is a macroscopic Higgs field, in the sense that the field value is nonzero due to spontaneous symmetry breaking. You are, in some sense, measuring this field every time you measure the mass of an elementary particle. However, you can't make macroscopic waves in the Higgs field (i.e. excitations about the constant field value) for the same reason as the $W$ and $Z$.