Yukawa coupling
Urs Schreiber
physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics
theory (physics), model (physics)
experiment, measurement, computable physics
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In the standard model of particle physics, the Yukawa couplings encode the interaction between the fundamental fermion fields and the Higgs field, and thus, via the Higgs mechanism, the masses of the fermion field after electroweak symmetry breaking.
In intersecting D-brane models...