I know that all matter particles have a dual nature, particle and wave. And apart from matter, photons also have dual nature. But what about bosons, specifically Higgs bosons? Do they show both wave and particle characters?
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3Note: a photon is also a boson – Nihar Karve Dec 12 '20 at 08:02
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Welcome to PhysicsSE! The concept of wave-particle duality is wrong: particles behave as particles. If your question is "does the Higgs boson behave in a similar manner?" then the answer is yes. On wave-particle duality, I can recommend https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/46303/220004 this answer and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citY6G8ePJw this Feynman video. – Mauro Giliberti Dec 12 '20 at 10:52
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If you are asking about interference effects of the Higgs, none such explored yet. But the Higgs is a cornerstone of Quantum Field Theory, which runs on this duality, as you put it… – Cosmas Zachos Aug 10 '23 at 10:54
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The Higgs boson has mass. According to the wave particle duality of nature, all particles have a wave nature. Therefore, the Higgs boson must also have a wave particle duality.
This is true for all particles whether they are massive or not, or whether they are bosons or fermions.
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Why specifying the massive nature of the Higgs, since the behavior asked by OP is (as you correctly said) independent of mass? – Mauro Giliberti Dec 12 '20 at 12:11