Electroweak doublet gauge-boson mass matrix

ID: electroweak-doublet-gauge-boson-mass-matrix

For a Higgs doublet with hypercharge and vacuum expectation value , its gauge-covariant kinetic term gives the neutral gauge-boson mass matrix
in the basis. Its eigenvalues are zero and , and the Weinberg angle rotation gives the photon and Z boson. The two charged electroweak gauge bosons have . The zero eigenvalue expresses the unbroken electric-charge gauge symmetry.

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