physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons...
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The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation...
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In 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient...
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking (section Higgs mechanism)
Gauge gravitation theory Goldstone boson Grand unified theory Higgs mechanism Higgs boson Higgs field (classical) Irreversibility Magnetic catalysis of chiral...
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Standard Model (section Higgs boson)
theory: Introduction to gauge theory Generation Higgs mechanism: Higgs boson, Alternatives to the Standard Higgs Model Lagrangian Open questions: CP violation...
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Higgs and CERN. Englert was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Peter Higgs for the discovery of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism...
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to the Higgs field, and its value is m e = y e v / 2 {\displaystyle m_{\rm {e}}=y_{\rm {e}}v/{\sqrt {2}}} . Instead of the Higgs mass, the Higgs self-coupling...
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a gauge field. In fact, this analogy is an abelian example for the Higgs mechanism, which generates the masses of the electroweak W± and Z gauge particles...
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the Higgs boson was a 40-year effort by physicists to prove the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, first theorised in the 1960s. The Higgs boson...
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Koide formula (section Higgs mechanism)
additional scalar particles beyond the Standard Model's Higgs boson. In fact one such Higgs potential would be precisely V ( Φ ) = det [ ( Φ − m e )...
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Bumblebee models (section Higgs mechanism)
the existence of Nambu–Goldstone modes, massive (Higgs) modes, and the possibility of a Higgs mechanism. In bumblebee models, Lorentz and diffeomorphism...
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Alternative models to the Standard Higgs Model are models which are considered by many particle physicists to solve some of the Higgs boson's existing problems...
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Scalar electrodynamics (section Higgs mechanism)
potential, it has the capacity to break the gauge symmetry via the Abelian Higgs mechanism. The model consists of a complex scalar field ϕ ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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and cosmology. He is best known as one of the first to describe the Higgs mechanism, and for his research on topological defects. From the 1950s he was...
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those "extra" three Higgs bosons become incorporated into the three weak bosons, which then acquire mass through the Higgs mechanism. These three composite...
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transition. Examples are: The Higgs field has a vacuum expectation value of 246 GeV. This nonzero value underlies the Higgs mechanism of the Standard Model....
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case of the Higgs mechanism, where, in effect, λ and thus the mass of the Higgs scalar excitation has been taken to infinity, so the Higgs has decoupled...
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the Higgs mechanism. In the Higgs mechanism, the four gauge bosons (of SU(2)×U(1) symmetry) of the unified electroweak interaction couple to a Higgs field...
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Englert; Peter Higgs; and Gerald Guralnik, C. Richard Hagen, and Tom Kibble (GHK). They are credited with the theory of the Higgs mechanism and the prediction...
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action is the gauge-fixed version of the Stueckelberg action via the Higgs mechanism. Quantizing the Proca action requires the use of second class constraints...
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of Physics at Brown University. In 1964, he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK). As part of Physical...
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{1}{2}}\,Y_{\mathrm {W} }} ) that does not couple to the Higgs boson. That is to say: the Higgs and the electromagnetic field have no effect on each other...
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to be a result of their coupling with the Higgs boson in what is known as the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism. There are several distinct phenomena that...
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symmetry breaking, a vacuum Higgs field, and its associated fundamental particle the Higgs boson are quantum phenomena. A vacuum Higgs field is responsible for...
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question the validity of the Higgs mechanism. In the usual presentation, the Higgs field has a potential that appears to give the Higgs field a non-vanishing...
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scalar boson (spin = 0) H0 Higgs boson – the particle that contributes to the phenomenon of mass via the Higgs mechanism Four vector bosons (spin = 1)...
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gluons are never observed independently. The Higgs boson gives mass to the W and Z bosons via the Higgs mechanism – the gluon and photon are expected to be...
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spin-0 Higgs boson. The combination of the SU(2) gauge theory of the weak interaction, the electromagnetic interaction, and the Higgs mechanism is known...
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{\displaystyle G} , coupled to a Higgs field which spontaneously breaks it down to a smaller group H {\displaystyle H} via the Higgs mechanism. It was first found...
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particle physics, the Higgs sector is the collection of quantum fields and/or particles that are responsible for the Higgs mechanism, i.e. for the spontaneous...
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