Why is Higgs field nonzero?

The Higgs field is non-zero because its equation of motion is like that of a ball at the bottom of a wine bottle. But it doesn’t tell us what b itself is.

What would particles be without the Higgs field?

Without the Higgs field, quarks would have no mass and consequently the proton would be heavier than the neutron, since all their mass would come from their respective binding energies.

What does the Higgs field prove?

The Higgs field was thought to be responsible for the fact that some particles that should not have mass, do. Proving the existence of the particle, with the properties physicists expected based on their understanding of the field, was effectively the same as proving the existence of the field directly.

Is Higgs field responsible for mass?

The Higgs field gives mass to fundamental particles—the electrons, quarks and other building blocks that cannot be broken into smaller parts. The energy of this interaction between quarks and gluons is what gives protons and neutrons their mass.

What is the value of the Higgs field?

≈246 GeV
The Higgs field is a central piece in the standard model of particle physics. Its non-zero vacuum expectation value ϕ≈246 GeV breaks the electroweak SU(2)×U(1) symmetry into the U(1) symmetry of electromagnetism and makes the W and Z bosons massive.

Did the LHC find the Higgs boson?

Now, researchers using ATLAS and CMS at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have found evidence for a rare Higgs boson decay in which the subatomic particle decays into one photon and two leptons, a type of elementary particle that can be charged or neutral.

Do electrons interact with the Higgs field?

It turned out that as other particles of matter, such as electrons, move through the Higgs field, they interact with the Higgs bosons, which cling to or cluster around the matter particles, and give them their mass. The more Higgs boson particles that interact with the other particle, the more mass it attains.

Is the Higgs field proven?

This field is called the Higgs field. As a consequence of wave-particle duality, all quantum fields have a fundamental particle associated with them. The particle associated with the Higgs field is called the Higgs boson. We have not yet truly proved that the Higgs boson exists, however.

Why do some particles interact with the Higgs field?

How can the Higgs field end up with a non-zero value?

The simplest way for the Higgs field to end up with a non-zero value throughout the universe would be if has a non-zero equilibrium value H 0 that appears in its Class 1 equation of motion: d 2 H/dt 2 – c 2 d 2 H/dx 2 = – (2 π ν min) 2 (H – H 0) (It has to be Class 1, not Class 0, for reasons that we’ll see when we discuss the Higgs particle.)

What are the properties of the Higgs field?

Properties of the Higgs field. In the Standard Model, the Higgs field is a scalar tachyonic field – scalar meaning it does not transform under Lorentz transformations, and tachyonic meaning the field (but not the particle) has imaginary mass, and in certain configurations must undergo symmetry breaking.

Is the Higgs boson proof of a scalar field?

According to Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN when the Higgs boson was discovered, this existence proof of a scalar field is almost as important as the Higgs’s role in determining the mass of other particles. It suggests that other hypothetical scalar fields suggested by other theories,…

What is the latest version of the Higgs boson?

Higgs boson. This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 November 2018. The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory.