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Mr.Thesaxman

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The Higgs field is best described as a field that
  a. explains why stable matter appears to be composed of fermions.
  b. particles interact with to acquire mass.
  c. governs the electroweak interaction.
  d. carries the strong force, carried by gluons.
  e. has been verified experimentally by many accelerators.

Question 2

One of Dirac's many achievements was a generalization of the action-at-a-distance concept. Feynman later improved upon that work by creating a space-time diagram to show that
 
a. particles interact by utilizing exchange particles as force carriers between each other.
  b. particles interact directly with each other.
  c. photons are truly waves.
  d. positrons are positive electrons.
  e. quarks exist only in multiples of three



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Answer to Question 1

b.
The Higgs field is theoretically the field with which particles interact to define their mass. Particles that interact weakly have small mass and vice versa. The Higgs field force carrier is the Higgs particle, a boson

Answer to Question 2

a.
The Feynman diagram created a simple visual image for two particles interacting through a field, usually a quite complex mathematical and physical problem.



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