Saturday, June 25, 2016

How does the Higgs boson give mass to other elementary particles like electrons?




So, the nucleus of an atom can be broken to protons and neutrons, and those can be broken down to quarks.


Electrons however are a different story, they can't be broken down since they are elementary particles but they do have mass.


So the higgs boson itself does not give mass to particles but the interaction between the Higgs field and the Higgs boson does? How does the electron for example interact with the Higgs field?




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