Higgs-like
Meanings
adj
- Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.
- (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.
Word forms
Etymology
From Higgs (“a surname”) + -like, from Peter Higgs, credited with the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.
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