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Electromagnetic gauge symmetry (U(1)em​)

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The unbroken local gauge symmetry associated with electric charge in the Standard Model. Its gauge boson is the massless photon. The neutral Higgs field vacuum preserves this subgroup while the W and Z acquire masses.

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