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There are 8 gluons, in fact. There is not very good reason why the Higgs interaction is not called a force. I wouldn't read too much into it, tradition carries
by pa7x1 3y ago
There are 8 gluons, in fact.
There is not very good reason why the Higgs interaction is not called a force. I wouldn't read too much into it, tradition carries a lot of weight in how people call things.
We could even measure the attractive force it generates: jhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05087 https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05087
- jychang 3y agoThat’s news to me. Are you saying the Higgs boson can create a force that accelerates particles in a direction? How does that work?
- hughesjj 3y agoKind of the opposite though right? As in it dampens acceleration in any direction?
- pa7x1 3y agoYes, the Higgs boson results in an attractive force between fermions given by the Yukawa potential (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_interaction). This potential takes basically the same form as the gravitational potential but with an additional exponential decay with distance due to the mass of the boson. Resulting in short-range interactions. So yes, in very short distances (~(inverse of the Higgs mass) ~ 10^-18 m) fermions do experience an attractive force between them due to the Higgs interaction. It works in exactly the same manner the rest of interactions work, the boson (Higgs) is the mediator of the force.
- dilyevsky 3y agoProbably due to inertia