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The Higgs vacuum reduces to electromagnetic , producing massive and fields and a massless photon.
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In the Higgs vacuum, the covariant-derivative term yields masses for and while leaving the photon massless.
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The Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism realizes electroweak symmetry breaking and gives longitudinal modes and masses to and ; charged-fermion masses require separate Yukawa couplings.
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The Higgs vacuum selects the electromagnetic subgroup.
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Electroweak symmetry breaking produces mass eigenstates by mixing the neutral weak-isospin and hypercharge fields.
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The observed electroweak theory is realized in the Higgs-broken vacuum phase.
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The charged weak gauge combinations acquire mass through the Higgs mechanism.
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