Higgs mechanism
MECHANISM IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN WHICH SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING CAUSES GAUGE BOSONS TO ACQUIRE MASS
Electroweak symmetry breaking; Anderson-Higgs mechanism; Higgs-Kibble mechanism; Higgs boson field; Higgs–Kibble mechanism; Anderson–Higgs mechanism; Abelian Higgs model; Abelian Higgs Model; Higgs potential; Higg mechanism; Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism; Higgs Mechanism; Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism; Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism; ABEGHHK'tH mechanism; Anderson-Higgs-Kibble mechanism; Higgs-mechanism; Higgs ocean; Brout–Englert–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism; Brout-Englert-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes of particles, the other being fermions) would be considered massless, but measurements show that the W+, W−, and Z0 bosons actually have relatively large masses of around 80 GeV/c2.