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I'm familiar with the Higgs mechanism.. but what perplexed me so much is the temperature dependence. I know about superconductivity or magnetic-temperature analogy.. or generally I understand what's written in wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism
"Below some extremely high temperature, the field causes spontaneous symmetry breaking during interactions. The breaking of symmetry triggers the Higgs mechanism, causing the bosons it interacts with to have mass."
But how exactly does the temperature part work? I've been googling a lot about it. What exact equation does relate temperature to the higgs field undergoing phase transition or the higgs mechanism. Is it related to the fact that the energy of the higgs boson or goldstone or others only occur when the temperature is high enough? For example temperature corresponding to 125 GeV? What is the equivalent temperature for 125 GeV? Any conversion table. Or are they unrelated?
What must you adjust in the equation (just for sake of illustration) such that the temperature can be lowered say to only 1000 Fahrenheit such that when the higgs field go above 1000 Fahrenheit.. it can produce the unbroken symmetry state and make matter become massless? Again just as illustration to understand how exactly temperature can change the higgs field.
Thank you.
"Below some extremely high temperature, the field causes spontaneous symmetry breaking during interactions. The breaking of symmetry triggers the Higgs mechanism, causing the bosons it interacts with to have mass."
But how exactly does the temperature part work? I've been googling a lot about it. What exact equation does relate temperature to the higgs field undergoing phase transition or the higgs mechanism. Is it related to the fact that the energy of the higgs boson or goldstone or others only occur when the temperature is high enough? For example temperature corresponding to 125 GeV? What is the equivalent temperature for 125 GeV? Any conversion table. Or are they unrelated?
What must you adjust in the equation (just for sake of illustration) such that the temperature can be lowered say to only 1000 Fahrenheit such that when the higgs field go above 1000 Fahrenheit.. it can produce the unbroken symmetry state and make matter become massless? Again just as illustration to understand how exactly temperature can change the higgs field.
Thank you.