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Mother of Higgs boson found in superconductors
- gus_massa 12y agoIt's very strange. The newscientist's articles says that this Higg's boson analogue gives the mass to the photons inside a superconductor. The problem is that the photons are related to the U(1) symmetry group. The real Higg's boson gives the mass to the W+,W- and Z particles, that are related to the SU(2) symmetry group. The problem is that the trick that produce the apparent mass don't work with the U(1) group because it's abelian and with dimension=1. (SU(2) is not abelian, and dimension=3). The original research article is linked at the bottom: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6201/1145 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6201/1145 I couldn't rear the complete article, so I read only the abstract. The abstract talks about pairs of electrons, but it doesn't mention photons. Anyone can explain more about this?