Contributor info: Prof. Ronald Kleiss

Jochem Kip, Ronald Kleiss

SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 88 (2024) · published 14 October 2024 | Toggle abstract · pdf

We present a paedagogical treatment of the electroweak Higgs mechanism based solely on Feynman diagrams and S-matrix elements, without recourse to (gauge) symmetry arguments. Throughout, the emphasis is on Feynman rules and the Schwinger-Dyson equations; it is pointed out that particular care is needed in the treatment of tadpole diagrams and their symmetry factors.