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Electroweak doublet gauge-boson mass matrix (mW2​=g2v2/4)

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For a Higgs doublet with hypercharge 1/2 and vacuum expectation value (0,v/2​)T, its gauge-covariant kinetic term gives the neutral gauge-boson mass matrix
Mneutral2​=4v2​(g2−gg′​−gg′g′2​)
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in the (W3,B) basis. Its eigenvalues are zero and (g2+g′2)v2/4, and the Weinberg angle rotation gives the photon and Z boson. The two charged electroweak gauge bosons have mW2​=g2v2/4. The zero eigenvalue expresses the unbroken electric-charge gauge symmetry.

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