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Can someone explain me what is mass according to the Standard Model?
I read that the Higgs boson "gives" mass to particles but I don´t understand what that means.
Here's what I think I got so far :
There is a field called Higgs field in all spacetime. It has a value for empty space which happens to be different than 0. A perturbation in the field is a Higgs boson.
What is mass in all this?
Extra questions
I read that Higgs field is a quantum field: Does that mean that it is a discrete field and that the value of the field for any given position is a multiple of some minimun amount?
And it is a scalar field, a vector field or what?
Thank you
I read that the Higgs boson "gives" mass to particles but I don´t understand what that means.
Here's what I think I got so far :
There is a field called Higgs field in all spacetime. It has a value for empty space which happens to be different than 0. A perturbation in the field is a Higgs boson.
What is mass in all this?
Extra questions
I read that Higgs field is a quantum field: Does that mean that it is a discrete field and that the value of the field for any given position is a multiple of some minimun amount?
And it is a scalar field, a vector field or what?
Thank you