= Supersymmetric Higgs mechanism
At a vacuum obeying <F-flatness> and <D-flatness>, charged <scalar field> expectation values can break an internal <gauge symmetry> while preserving <supersymmetry>. For each broken generator, a massless <vector multiplet> combines with a <chiral superfield> into a <massive N=1 vector multiplet>. The vector absorbs one real <Goldstone boson>; a real scalar remains, and the <gaugino> mixes with a <higgsino>. All four bosonic and four fermionic on-shell states have a common mass.
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