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Higgslike

Higgslike is the alternative spelling of Higgs-like.

Meaning of 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...
  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

Questions about Higgslike

What is Higgslike the alternative spelling of?
Higgslike is the alternative spelling of Higgs-like.

Words near Higgslike in the dictionary

  1. Higgs-like
  2. Higgses
  3. higgsino
  4. higgsinos
  5. higgsless
  6. Higgslike
  7. higgson
  8. higgsons
  9. high
  10. High Abbotside
  11. high adventure

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