Higgs mechanism

noun

Etymology

From Higgs (“a surname”) + mechanism; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with its discovery.

Definitions

  1. The proposed interaction between elementary particles and the Higgs field that imbues the…

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

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