Higgs-like

Adjective

Higgs-like (not comparable)

1. Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.
   • In the MA gauge, the Higgs-like mechanism takes place at the infrared scale of QCD.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...
   • 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.2005, Lawrence B. Crowell, Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime, page 206
2. (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.
   • 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.2003, James Bjorken, In Conclusion: A Collection of Summary Talks in High Energy Physics, page 398
   • 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.2008, Guido Altarelli, Kunio Inoue, Takaaki Kajita, Martin Grünewald, Elementary Particles, page 12-8