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This Higgs field breaks electroweak symmetry and provides mass to particles though a process called the Higgs mechanism. The excitation of the Higgs field is called a Higgs boson.
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Why does the Higgs field have less energy when it's non-zero than when it's zero?
From the form of the Higgs potential (which is quartic, the famous Mexican hat) you can see that for $\Re \phi =0$ as well as for $\Im \phi=0$ (the real and imaginary parts of the Higgs field), it is sitting …
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Georgi-Glashow model and the VEV of the scalar field
What are the fundamental differences to the SM Higgs model? There for example the Higgs is a complex scalar, right? …