Higgs-like

English

Etymology

From Higgs (“a surname”) +‎ -like, from Peter Higgs, credited with the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.

Adjective

Higgs-like (not comparable)

(physics) Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.
- 2001, K. Amemia, H. Suganuma, H. Ichie, “Off-diagonal Gluon Mass Generation and Strong Randomness of Off-diagonal Gluon Phase in Maximally Abelian Gauge”, in International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, page 333:
  In the MA gauge, the Higgs-like mechanism takes place at the infrared scale of QCD.
- 2005, Lawrence B. Crowell, Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime, page 206:
  In this model gravity emerges from the small wiggling of the string, which results in the gravity field on a large scale. This emergent Higgs-like field results from small wiggly vibrations of the string.
- 2011, Jeff Greensite, An Introduction to the Confinement Problem, page 30:
  But in the gauge-Higgs theory we have discussed, it seems impossible to distinguish between the confinement-like and Higgs-like regions of the theory in terms of the spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetry.
(physics) (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.
- 2003, James Bjorken, In Conclusion: A Collection of Summary Talks in High Energy Physics, page 398:
  So there will be three massless (or nearly massless, if there is some breaking of the new O(4) symmetry) "dark" Nambu-Goldstone bosons I call k, as well as a new massive Higgs-like boson called S.
- 2008, Guido Altarelli, Kunio Inoue, Takaaki Kajita, Martin Grünewald, Elementary Particles, page 12-8:
  Indeed, there is an important region of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where there is just one Higgs-like particle accessible to the LHC with properties almost identical to the Standard Model Higgs.
- 2012 July 4, Thomas H. Maugh II, “CERN physicists say they have discovered "Higgs-like" boson”, in Los Angeles Times:
  In a culmination of 50 years of theoretical speculation and three weeks of intense media frenzy, two teams of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had independently discovered evidence for a "Higgs-like" boson, the long-sought elementary particle that gives mass to the universe.

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