An electroweak doublet with has component charges under . Its upper-component vacuum therefore preserves electromagnetism. The canonical covariant-derivative term gives , and a massless photon. Neutral eigenvectors are proportional to for and for the photon. This is the conjugate-doublet convention to the usual positive-hypercharge Higgs doublet and gives the same mass ratio and electric coupling.
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