Thursday 29 October 2015

particle physics - The contribution to mass from the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry


The claim is often made that the discovery of the Higgs boson will give us information about the origin of mass. However, the bare masses of the up and down quarks are only around 5 MeV, quite a bit smaller than their "constituent" or "dynamical" mass of around 300 MeV. (Remember that a neutron, for example, is one up and two down quarks and has a total mass of 939 MeV.) What then, is the reasoning behind the claim that the Higgs will address the origin of mass when by far the majority of the mass of the neutron (and proton) is related instead to the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry?




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