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If neutrinos are their own anti-particle, they do not get their mass from the higgs field. Most particles have a 'dirac mass' which arises from a coupling with
by saboot 11y ago
If neutrinos are their own anti-particle, they do not get their mass from the higgs field. Most particles have a 'dirac mass' which arises from a coupling with the Higgs Field. An alternative is to have a 'majorana mass' due to the interactions of the two majorana particle fields. As a consequence a super-heavy neutrino with very large mass would be predicted.
- 77pt77 11y agoThis is the correct answer. the term people should search for is indeed majorana mass. I would just like to add that most of the mass we observe doesn't come from the higgs but from QCD. the higgs part is minuscule.