Yukawa interaction and chirality.

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The discussion centers on the Yukawa interaction and its role in coupling opposite chiral fermions to form physical particles like electrons and positrons. There is confusion regarding how the Higgs vacuum expectation value (vev) interacts without flipping chirality or helicity, as mentioned in another thread. Participants question the implications of the Yukawa interaction term, which appears to couple the same chiral fields, on angular momentum conservation. The relationship between chirality and helicity in massless particles is also a key point of inquiry. Overall, the conversation highlights the complexities of understanding particle interactions within the framework of quantum field theory.
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i still can't figure out how the higgs vev couples opposite chiral fermions(spinor components) to compose a physical electron/positron. (and actually in kurros 's thread it says that the yukawa interaction does not flip chirality nor helicity. what the hell does it mean for the yukawa interaction term making two terms that couple same chiral fields??). in that way how does it conserve angular momentum(since chirality and helicity is same in the massless limit...)??
 
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See the posting in the other thread of the same subject (don't open two threads on the same subject in so short a time, because the answers then get cluttered without much order).
 

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