Sunday, December 22, 2019

higgs - What does an excitation in a field mean?



The term "field excitation" is used a lot especially when I hear about the Higgs boson. However, I cannot find an explanation of what precisely that means. I have a few questions relating to this.



  1. What does it mean for a field to be excited?

  2. Why does colliding particles at high energies produce these excitation?




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