Higgs field
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Etymology
[edit]From Higgs (“a surname”) + field; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism.
Noun
[edit]Higgs field (usually uncountable, plural Higgs fields)
- (physics) A theoretical scalar field associated with electroweak symmetry breaking, the quantum of which is the Higgs boson; interaction with this field is hypothesised to give elementary particles their mass.