The Higgs mass receives quantum corrections on the Higgs field

VERN BENDER

4 years ago

Theorists have come up with a mechanism to give particles masses that require a new particle, the Higgs boson.

The Standard Model includes the matter particles (quarks and leptons), the force-carrying particles (bosons), and the Higgs boson.

The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, which gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A particle’s mass determines how much it resists changing its speed or position when it encounters a force. Not all fundamental particles have mass.
The Higgs boson does not technically give other particles mass. More precisely, the particle is a quantized manifestation of a field (the Higgs field) that generates mass through its interaction with other particles. Quantum fields are similar to more familiar fields, like electric and magnetic fields. The Higgs mechanism is a type of superconductivity which occurs in the vacuum. It occurs when all of space is filled with a sea of particles charged, or, in field language, when a charged field has a nonzero vacuum expectation value.
The Higgs mass receives quantum corrections from every particle’s virtual effects that couples, directly or indirectly, to the Higgs field.

Color flux tubes produced by a configuration of four static quark-and-antiquark charges:

There are three anti-colors: cyan (anti-red), magenta (anti-green), and yellow (anti-blue), and any color-anticolor combination is also colorless. This is why you can have baryons (made of 3 quarks) or mesons (made of quark/antiquark combinations): because nature needs your complete, bound object to be colorless.
The way quarks bind into protons is fundamentally different from all the other forces and interactions. The gravitational, electric, or magnetic forces — the attractive force goes down to zero when quarks get arbitrarily close. Instead of the force getting weaker when objects get farther away, the force pulling quarks back together gets stronger the farther away they get. This property of the strong nuclear force is known as asymptotic freedom, and the particles that mediate this force are known as gluons. Somehow, the proton’s energy binding together, the other 99.8% of the proton’s mass, comes from these gluons.
The strong nuclear force is responsible for:
How protons and neutrons bind together to make atomic nuclei,
Why different elements have different mass-per-nucleon ratios,
How and at what rate nuclear reactions in the Sun occur.,
Why iron, nickel, and cobalt are the most stable elements.
High-Performance Lattice Field Theory:

Lattice QCD: Particle physicists use lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputers to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, the fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron, and pion. The QCD analog of electric charge is a property called color.
The supersymmetric standard model: Supersymmetry is an extension of the Standard Model that aims to fill some of the gaps. It predicts a partner particle for each particle in the Standard Model. To date, no evidence for supersymmetry has been found.
GO BIG, OR GO HOME:
Ten years in, the Large Hadron Collider has failed to deliver the exciting discoveries that scientists promised. Last week, CERN unveiled plans to build an accelerator larger and far more potent than the L.H.C.
They needed to find a Higgs field that fills the universe. No Higgs mass mechanism has been found.
Math doesn’t lie, but liars can make maths lie.
Every form of untruth has its price, and you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blow.