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by AnimalMuppet 591 days ago
> neutrinos have mass and this in itself is a problem because the Higgs mechanism doesn't provide mass to them ...

The Higgs mechanism doesn't provide all mass, even of the things that it provides mass for. They each have a "bare" mass, that is, a mass without any Higgs interactions. They just have a much greater mass because of the Higgs interaction. (And maybe that's why neutrinos have so little mass...)

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Uuuuh... No...

The W Z have only mass from the Higgs and nothing else for example.

But to answer your point completely here is an answer which is in the two following links making the point for the Dirac fields

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/607435/what-part...

https://cds.cern.ch/record/292286/files/B00008237.pdf at page 46

Or have I misunderstood your point?

I stand corrected.