Rejoice-The Higgs Potential as a function of temperature (T) •In QFT, temperature changes the vacuum •Nature chooses the vacuum that is (1) a global min. & (2) stable •At high T (e.g. Big Bang), the Higgs will want to be at h=0 at which point all particles become massless!pic.twitter.com/UGMRAfJGcL
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Replying to @InertialObservr
Does the Higgs mechanism really account for all mass? I thought particles are free to have an intrinsic mass regardless, but that Higgs either modifies the mass or adds mass to zero-mass particles.
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Replying to @nrui_tweet
It’s responsible for all the mass of *fundamental* particles.. fundamental particles can’t have explicit mass terms because of gauge invariance
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Replying to @InertialObservr
Does “fundamental” mean gauge field then? Reasonable
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Replying to @nrui_tweet
Fundamental just means non bound states—the standard model fields above the confinement scale
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Replying to @InertialObservr
Does this include things like electrons or other fermions that are not known to be composite?
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