The mass of the Higgs Boson is established at 125 GeV, and its existence is a direct consequence of the Higgs mechanism, which is essential for providing mass to other particles through the Higgs field. The Higgs bosons themselves do not need to be present for particles to have mass; rather, the Higgs field's non-zero vacuum expectation value is sufficient. Higgs bosons interact with fermions via Yukawa terms and with weak bosons (W and Z), and they also exhibit self-interactions as a scalar field. Understanding the relationship between chirality and mass in quantum field theory is crucial for grasping the complexities of particle interactions.
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nikkkom said:Particles are excitations of fields.
There is a very, very good explanation of all this with a very small amount of math:
http://profmattstrassler.com/articl...-basics/fields-and-their-particles-with-math/