Just attended some very interesting lectures as part of the "Higgs Fest" here at Uppsala (http://www.kalendarium.uu.se/en?eventId=4251), but while I think I understood how protons and neutrons gather mass from the Higgs field, I failed to comprehend how the electron gets its mass. - Would be grateful for any enlightenment for a physicist.
Ralph H. Scheicher
Thanks! I understand now, and my confusion came from this explanation of Frank Wilczek regarding the "color field" (i.e., mass coming from the strong interaction, or, gluons inside the proton and neutron). I somehow interpreted this as the Higgs coupling to this color field, which for electrons you don't have.
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