A Weinberg angle in terms of Higgs mass

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The Weinberg angle ##\Theta_{W}## is commonly expressed as

$$\cos\Theta_{W} = M_{W}/M_{Z}.$$

Can the Weinberg angle ##\Theta_{W}## be expressed in terms of the Higgs mass and the mass of the W boson as

$$\sin^{2}\Theta_{W}= m_{H}/M_{W}?$$
 
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Of course not. Did you even try and plug the numbers in?
 
spaghetti3451 said:
\Theta_{W} be expressed in terms of the Higgs mass and the mass of the W boson as
why?
that's the sin^2:
\sin^2 \theta =1 - \cos^2 \theta = 1 - \frac{M_W^2}{M_Z^2} = \frac{M_Z^2 - M_W^2 }{M_Z^2} \approx 0.22
Your expression doesn't even make sense (for a sin), since the right hand side of your equation is >1 (the higgs is heavier than the W).

And you can't write it in terms of the Higgs mass, because the masses of the W and Z from the Higgs mechanism (with Higgs' vev v) are found:
M_W = v \frac{g}{2}
M_Z = v \frac{\sqrt{g^2+g'^2}}{2}
\cos \theta \equiv \frac{M_Z}{M_W} = \frac{g}{\sqrt{g^2+g'^2}}
with g,g' the coupling constants of SU(2),U(1) respectively. This is only a function of the coupling constants of SU(2) and U(1) (can be interpreted as the angle between the constants if you represent them as orthogonal vectors). If \cos \theta is not a function of any quantity that's proportional to the Higgs' mass (m_H^2 =2 v^2 \lambda), then neither is \theta.
 
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