| 11. | Gauge symmetry may be broken by the Higgs mechanism.
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| 12. | It also generates mass without a Higgs mechanism.
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| 13. | Initially, Krauss was skeptical of the Higgs mechanism.
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| 14. | Thus, there is no conventional Higgs mechanism in bumblebee models that results in a massive graviton.
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| 15. | According to the Standard Model, the W and Z bosons gain mass via the Higgs mechanism.
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| 16. | This mechanism, the Higgs mechanism, is the means by which spontaneous symmetry breaking gives mass to fermions.
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| 17. | The Higgs mechanism postulates the existence of the Higgs field which confers mass on quarks and leptons.
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| 18. | For example, if the photon mass were due to a Higgs mechanism, monopoles would still be allowed.
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| 19. | To overcome this, spontaneous symmetry breaking is augmented by the Higgs mechanism to give these particles mass.
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| 20. | Mass occurs by the Higgs mechanism, as far as we know, which is really not anything like you described.
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