Radial and angular masses of a phase-invariant scalar potential

ID: radial-and-angular-masses-of-a-phase-invariant-scalar-potential

For a complex scalar field with canonical kinetic term and potential , take a broken-symmetry minimum , where . Writing gives quadratic potential . Hence the canonical squared masses are and . Coupling gives gauge-boson squared mass ; the factor of two depends on defining as the complex field's vacuum value rather than its canonically normalized real component.

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