We know that the electromagnetic force can transfer heat and make the temperatures go up and down. Entire thermodynamics is based on this heat transfer. My question is whether the electroweak force by itself can do the same thing? Can the electroweak force transfer heat in the total absence of electromagnetic radiation? Is there any experimental evidence to support or reject this idea?
The spontaneous symmetry breaking causes the massless W3 and B bosons to coalesce together into two different bosons – the Zo boson, and the photon. Before this symmetry breaking, photons did not have any independent existence at all. What existed before this symmetry breaking were W bosons of weak isospin from SU(2) (W1, W2, and W3), and the B boson of weak hypercharge from U(1), respectively, all of which are massless. Are any of these particles capable of transfering heat? I very much doubt. I think prior to symmetry breaking, following energy temperature formula which is based on Boltzmann constant could not be used, because photons did not exist and this formula is applicable only to photons.
T (deg.K) = E (in eV) x 11604.44845
So the question is whether there was any heat transfer in the early universe prior to separation of electromagnetic force from the electroweak force?