Higgs mechanism

Noun

Meaning

Higgs mechanism (uncountable)

(physics) The proposed interaction between elementary particles and the Higgs field that imbues the particles with mass and breaks the electroweak symmetry.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

Higgs Higgs boson Higgs field higgsino Higgs particle

Examples

Higgs mechanism should be renamed the "ABEGHHK'tH mechanism”. Peter Higgs

But there is indirect evidence for the reality of the Electroweak symmetry breaking as described by the Higgs mechanism, and the non-existence of Higgs bosons would indicate a " Higgsless " description of this mechanism. Source: Internet

As I understand it, this model gave masses to the W and Z bosons via the Higgs mechanism, and to the quarks and electron-series leptons by having both left-handed and right-handed spinor fields for them with a Dirac mass term put in by hand. Source: Internet

The Higgs mechanism is believed to give rise to the masses of all the elementary particles in the Standard Model. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Higgs boson higgs condensate Higgs field higgs mechanism in quantum field theory Higgs particle higgs potential