Understanding the Relationship Between Mass and the Higgs Field

[Ibix]

Perhaps a Higgnorant question? Anyway. Am I correct in thinking that the mass of a Higgs-field-interacting particle is the energy stored in the Higgs field by that interaction?

 

[mfb]

No. Without going into details, it does not even have the same units. Energy stored in a field would have an energy density (energy per volume), while the Higgs mass has an energy, without a volume.

 

[arivero]

The question of how much energy does the Higgs receives from self interaction is a interesting one, but indeed it is not directly related to the measured mass.

 

[Ibix]

mfb: I bet the volume integral is infinite, right?

Thanks for your replies. I think I need an easy reader quantum field theory book.