What we now call the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism gives a mass to the W and Z when they interact with an invisible field, now called the “Higgs field”, which pervades the universe. Just after the big ...
For instance, photons are quanta of the electromagnetic field, and the quarks and leptons are quanta of their respective quantum fields. Then we have the Higgs field, which gives rise to the Higgs ...