The Higgs mechanism is described and the role played by the Higgs vacuum expectation value is explained. It is shown that the mass of any massive particle is proportional to the strength of its coupling to the Higgs boson, and the specific example of the mass of the W -boson is given. ...
What was later discovered about the Higgs field was that it would not only give mass to the W and Z bosons but that it would grant mass to many other fundamental particles. Without the Higgs field and the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, all fundamental particles would race around the universe...
The Higgs mechanism, i.e., spontaneous symmetry breaking of the quantum vacuum, is a cross-disciplinary principle, universal for understanding dark energy, antimatter and quantum materials, from superconductivity to magnetism. Unlike one-band superconductors (SCs), a conceptually distinct Higgs amplitude...
We have also made the GIM mechanism manifest by dropping the terms that are independent of the internal down-type quark masses after summing over the three internal quark flavours and imposing the unitarity relation The sum of the amplitudes resulting from all the diagrams shown in Fig. 1 is ...
British particle physicist Peter Higgs (as seen in the 1960s), Higgs boson namesake and lead researcher on the Higgs mechanism (Peter Tuffy) This is where the LHC comes in. We know that the Higgs boson governs the amount of mass a particle can have. It is therefore by definition “massiv...
The scalar sector of the SM may therefore be seen as a messenger of a more fundamental theory that replaces the SM at energies beyond the EW scale and turns apparent arbitrariness into logical consequences. After all, the mechanism of EW symmetry breaking as realised in the SM via the Brout...
seeking a mechanism to endow particles with mass. And once again the math has come through with flying colors. As a theoretical physicist myself, one of many dedicated to finding what Einstein called the “unified theory”—the deeply hidden connections between all of nature’s forces and ...
The magnetic ordering in this case can be understood as a Bose–Einstein condensation of monopolar spinons within the Higgs mechanism29,30, which gaps out all the soft spin excitations and takes a first-order character28–30, as in the case of normal-to-super- conductor transitions31. This ...
This is in general not the case in RS scenarios, but the RS-GIM mechanism ensures that the differences are small [54]. An exception to this could be IR localized fermions, and their effects, for example in the Zb¯b coupling, have to be considered independently. It turns out these ...
Even for such small sθ, this model can still explain the smallness of the neutrino masses with the mechanism explained in this paper. Finally, according to ref. [89], this model with such small sθ gives rise to additional testable predictions include gravitation waves at frequencies in the...