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Higgs mechanism
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English
Etymology
From en Higgs a surname + en mechanism; en British physicist Peter Higgs = 1, who is credited with its discovery.
Noun
en physics The proposed interaction between elementary particles and the Higgs field that imbues the particles with mass and breaks the electroweak symmetry.
Related terms
en Higgs boson Higgs field Higgs particle Higgsino Higgs