Complete breaking by an SU2 scalar doublet ($SU(2)\to \{1\}$)

A nonzero complex fundamental doublet has trivial stabilizer in the gauged $SU(2)$. Its three angular directions are gauge directions, absorbed by the Higgs mechanism. For vacuum ${\varphi }_0=(0,v/\sqrt{2}{)}^T$, the three gauge bosons have equal mass $gv/2$; one radial scalar remains. There is no unbroken photon-like gauge generator in this theory.

In unitary gauge, $\varphi =(0,(v+h)/\sqrt{2}{)}^T$ gives $\frac{g^2}{8}(v+h{)}^2{A}_{\mu }^a{A}^{a\mu }$. With potential $\frac{\lambda }{2}({\varphi }^{†}\varphi -v^2/2{)}^2$, the physical scalar has $m_h^2=\lambda v^2$ and interactions $-\lambda v{h}^3/2-\lambda h^4/8$. This normalization matters when extracting both masses and identical-leg Feynman vertices.