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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Mechanism

D-282 Home PU-304 Threads symmetry · fields · force · matter Depends on Local U(1) Gauge Invariance Fixes the QED Coupling, Noether's Theorem for Conserved Currents
Statement

Derives how a spontaneously broken gauge symmetry gives mass to gauge bosons while a Goldstone mode is absorbed.

Depends on

Local U(1) Gauge Invariance Fixes the QED Coupling, Noether's Theorem for Conserved Currents

Used by

PU-304/L31 PU-304/L32