RE: What is Symmetry Breaking?
June 15, 2017 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2017 at 5:34 pm by Alex K.)
(June 15, 2017 at 4:36 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(June 15, 2017 at 4:10 pm)Alex K Wrote: The electron indeed gets its mass from the interaction with the Higgs field as well. The question why precisely the neutrino only has very little mass is not quite settled yet, but could possibly be settled in the future. There are several different scenarios on the table how the small Neutrino masses arise, and we don't know yet which one, if any, is correct.
I'm not lost yet—I don't think. So is the process by which a Higgs boson gives mass to an electron different from the process by which a W (gauge) boson turns an electron into a neutrino?
Please, please, I beg you say yes. Because if you say no, I will go to the store and buy ten bottles of Tylenol and donate my brain to science fiction.
Isn't it obvious neutrinos don't have mass because they're protestant.
Hehe. Yes. First of all it's not really the Higgs boson giving mass but the higgs field of which the boson is an excitation. Also, gauge bosons have spin 1 whereas the higgs boson has spin 0. The interaction of the higgs with fermions changes their spin direction in different ways than the gauge boson interaction, but they are similar.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
