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The complex scalar field transforming as an doublet with weak hypercharge in the Standard Model. Its nonzero vacuum expectation value breaks electroweak symmetry.
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After expansion about the electroweak vacuum and gauge fixing, three doublet degrees of freedom supply longitudinal and modes and one physical scalar field remains.
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The Higgs kinetic term couples the doublet to and gauge fields.
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The Higgs doublet and its vacuum configuration supply the scalar degrees of freedom used by the electroweak Higgs mechanism.
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The Higgs doublet’s neutral component has a nonzero vacuum expectation value.
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The Higgs doublet and its potential are Standard Model components.
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