Higgs Mass and Other Particles

[RJ Emery]

If the Higgs boson imparts mass to other particles, does it not itself lose mass and energy in the process? As it does its thing, could not the Higgs than transform itself to a different particle, one that may have already been seen, perhaps down to a point particle with no mass?

 

[tiny-tim]

If the Higgs boson imparts mass to other particles …

the higgs field imparts mass to other particles

btw, can anyone tell me …

what imparts charge to charged particles?? ​

 

[TrickyDicky]

what imparts charge to charged particles?? [/INDENT]

Good question, along with: what imparts spin,... any property to particles?
I think the key here is that charge of the particles didn't break the symmetry of the SM as masses did. But someone who actually know about particle physics should clarify it.

 

[tiny-tim]

btw, can anyone tell me …

what imparts charge to charged particles?? ​

ah, i see someone else has started a thread on this …

… I was wondering if you guys could explain to me what is the big deal with the Higgs boson . I get it that it gives mass to particles, but that doesn't really mean much to me. Why isn't there a particle that gives charge to particles? …

 

[PhilDSP]

what imparts charge to charged particles??

The most easy to understand answer (and admittedly it's only a beginning) is that in Yukawa theory the meson carries the charge between the proton and neutron or vice versa.

Yukawa's Noble prize lecture:
www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/.../yukawa-lecture.pdf

Deeper of course is how fractions of a charge are exchanged in QCD and the theory of Quarks and how spins are involved

 

[tiny-tim]

Yukawa's Noble prize lecture:

link obsolete …

"Nobelprize.org launched a new website in June 2010. This can make your bookmarks disappear."​

try http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1949/yukawa-lecture.pdf

 

[RJ Emery]

the higgs field imparts mass to other particles

OK. Please explain to me the difference between the Higgs boson/particle and the Higgs field.

In a video for laymen (of which I am one), Daniel Whiteson (an experimental physicist working at CERN) said "The Higgs is the particle responsible for giving mass to other particles." Hence the genesis of my original question in this thread.

 

[tiny-tim]

OK. Please explain to me the difference between the Higgs boson/particle and the Higgs field.

the higgs particle is a particle, the higgs field is a field

In a video for laymen (of which I am one), Daniel Whiteson (an experimental physicist working at CERN) said "The Higgs is the particle responsible for giving mass to other particles." Hence the genesis of my original question in this thread.

do you mean the video made with jorge cham of phd comicsm, at http://io9.com/daniel-whiteson/ ?

yes, at http://www.phdcomics.com/higgs/index.php?page=6 he says that it's the higgs particle

but immediately after that, at http://www.phdcomics.com/higgs/index.php?page=7 he says that it's the higgs field

 

[RJ Emery]

the higgs particle is a particle, the higgs field is a field ...

I take it you don't know the difference either.

do you mean the video made with jorge cham of phd comicsm, at http://io9.com/daniel-whiteson/? ... at http://www.phdcomics.com/higgs/index.php?page=6 he says that it's the higgs particle, but immediately after that, at http://www.phdcomics.com/higgs/index.php?page=7 he says that it's the higgs field

That was the basis for my question raised in this post.

I await an answer from a more knowledgeable responder.

 

[tkav1980]

Isn't a particle just a small packet or excited state of a field? Wouldnt that mean that the Higgs particle IS the Higgs field in a local state of excitement?

Sorry, I'm not a physicist, just interrested.