Tuesday, 30 June 2020

mass - What is the relation between the Higgs field and chirality?


Wikipedia states that the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry "is responsible for the bulk of the mass (over 99%) of the nucleons".


How do the nucleons gain mass from the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry? Why don't leptons gains mass from it? What is the role of the Higgs field in this all?




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