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Higgs-like
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Etymology
From en Higgs like a surname, from Peter Higgs, credited with the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.
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en physics Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.
en 2001 In the MA gauge, the Higgs-like mechanism takes place at the infrared scale of QCD. International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement Off-diagonal Gluon Mass Generation and Strong Randomness of Off-diagonal Gluon Phase in Maximally Abelian Gauge 333 K. Amemia; H. Suganuma; H. Ichie
en 2005 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. Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime Lawrence B. Crowell 206
en 2011 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. An Introduction to the Confinement Problem Jeff Greensite 30
en physics (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.
en 2003 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. 398 James Bjorken In Conclusion: A Collection of Summary Talks in High Energy Physics
en 2008 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. Elementary Particles Guido Altarelli; Kunio Inoue; Takaaki Kajita; Martin Grünewald !12-8
en 2012-07-04 Thomas H. Maugh II 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. CERN physicists say they have discovered "Higgs-like" boson Los Angeles Times
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