Can Antimatter react with Higgs?

salil87 · Aug 6, 2012

Since Particles react with the Higgs Field to gain mass, can't the antiparticles react with it too to gain mass.
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Salil

Grizzled · Aug 6, 2012

Not only can, they should.

With the usual caveat of course - IF we figured them out correctly. However, since you refer to the Higgs as currently defined by theory then, within that same theory, the answer is - yep.

Chronos · Aug 6, 2012

The Higgs field is believed to be a scalar field, meaning the Higgs should be a spin zero boson and indiscriminatively confer mass to all fermions. For discussion, see http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6660

Can Antimatter react with Higgs?

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