Higgs Field vs Fields Giving Rise to Virtual Particles

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Is the field of the theorized Higgs particle totally distinct from those fields which give rise to fleeting virtual particles? Would the latter also have some kind of 'drag' effect on elementary particles like the Higgs is thought to do?

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The Higgs particle is a scalar field which through the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking allows other particles like gauge bosons to have masses. Gauge bosons show up due to required gauge symmetries of the lagrangian. What kind of distinction are you looking for?
 
Polyrhythmic said:
The Higgs particle is a scalar field which through the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking allows other particles like gauge bosons to have masses. Gauge bosons show up due to required gauge symmetries of the lagrangian. What kind of distinction are you looking for?

Hmm...simply, are virtual particles produced (and instantaneously re-absorbed) by the vacuum generated by the Higgs particle's scalar field or by some other field of field theory? (Can such a question be posed in this way or not?)

IH
 
I don't think this makes sense, how would the Higgs field produce virtual particles?
 
"Is the field of the theorized Higgs particle totally distinct from those fields which give rise to fleeting virtual particles?"

most likely yes...I've never read of them being connected.

Try reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particles#Properties

The concept of virtual particles arises in the perturbation theory of quantum field theory, an approximation scheme in which interactions (essentially forces) between real particles are calculated in terms of exchanges of virtual particles. Any process involving virtual particles admits a schematic representation known as a Feynman diagram which facilitates the understanding of calculations.

On the other hand, I'd bet that all manifestations originate from a common source...mass,particles, force, energy,time,space...all are related in ways we don't fully understand. Seems like they were all "unified" just prior to and at the big bang..

For a bit more try here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking#Importance_within_the_standard_model
 

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