Meaning of Higgs-like | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.
   not-comparable
2. (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.
   not-comparable

Examples

“In the MA gauge, the Higgs-like mechanism takes place at the infrared scale of QCD.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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