Noun
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.
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