On Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 3:56:39 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 10:43:39 PM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> In what way does the Standard Model imply the existence of the Higgs >> Boson? TIA. >> > > I have been around the block on this. The Higgs field breaks the > electroweak symmetry U(2) = SU(2)xU(1) the transferring 3 Goldstone boson > components to the weak interaction bosons as longitudinal components. A > quantum field with a longitudinal component usually has a mass. > > LC >
Bear with me; what is electroweak symmetry, and why does it need to be broken? TIA, AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1d3bf820-8e88-4869-b9b3-8c22bb997876%40googlegroups.com.
