Higgs may refer to:
Physics
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Higgs boson
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the excited state, quantum excitation of the Higgs field,
one of the field (physics), fields in particl ...
, an elementary particle
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Higgs factory, a proposed particle accelerator
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Higgs field
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the excited state, quantum excitation of the Higgs field,
one of the field (physics), fields in particl ...
, a quantum field
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Higgs field (classical)
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, a vacuum Higgs field, and its associated fundamental particle the Higgs boson are quantum phenomena. A vacuum Higgs field is responsible for spontaneous symmetry breaking the gauge symmetries of fundamental interac ...
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Higgs mechanism
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the Mass generation, generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes of particles ...
, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking
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Higgs phase
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Higgs sector
Mathematics
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Higgs bundle, a vector bundle
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Higgs prime, a class of prime numbers
People
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Alan Higgs (died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist
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Alf Higgs (born 1904), Welsh rugby league footballer
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Alfred Higgs (athlete) (born 1991), Bahamian sprinter
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Amanda Higgs, Australian television producer, writer and executive
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Anna Higgs, English film producer
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Avis Higgs (1918–2016), New Zealand textile designer and painter
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Blaine Higgs (born 1954), Canadian politician; Premier of New Brunswick
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Blake Alphonso Higgs
Blake Alphonso Higgs (1915–1986), better known as "Blind Blake", was the best-known performer of goombay and calypso in the Bahamas from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Biography
Higgs was born in 1915 in Matthew Town, Inagua, Bahamas. For much ...
(1915–1986), Bahamian singer and musician
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Cecil Higgs
Cecil Higgs (28 June 1898, Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State - 16 June 1986, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African artist. She was the third child and second girl of the five children of Clement Higgs and his wife Florence. In 1912, Higgs's ...
(1898–1986), South African artist
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Colleen Higgs (born 1962), South African writer and publisher
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David Higgs, American organist
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Denis Higgs (1929–2011), English mathematician
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Derek Higgs (1944–2008), English business leader and merchant banker, son of Alan Higgs
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Douglas Higgs (born 1951), British haematologist
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Dustin Higgs (1972–2021), American convicted murderer
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Eric Higgs (disambiguation), various people
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George Higgs (1930–2013), American Piedmont blues musician
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Godfrey Higgs (1907–1986), Bahamian sailor
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Griffin Higgs (1589–1659), English churchman
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Harry Higgs (born 1991), American golfer
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Helen Burns Higgs (1897–1983), Bahamian writer, journalist and botanical illustrator
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Henry Higgs (1864–1940), English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought
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Henry Marcellus Higgs (also known as H.M. Higgs) (1855–1929), English composer and music arranger
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Hubert Higgs (1911–1992), Anglican Bishop of Hull
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Jake Higgs (born 1975), Canadian curler
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James Higgs (1829–1902), English organist and teacher, uncle of Henry Marcellus Higgs
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Jess Higgs (born 1989), Australian singer also known as George Maple
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Jim Higgs (born 1950), Australian former cricketer
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Joe Higgs
Joseph Benjamin Higgs (3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson. He was a popular artist in Jamaica for four decades and i ...
(1940–1999), Jamaican singer and musician
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John Higgs
John Higgs is an English writer, novelist, journalist and cultural historian. The work of Higgs has been published in the form of novels (under the pseudonym JMR Higgs), biographies and works of cultural history.
In particular, Higgs has writt ...
(born 1970s), English writer, novelist, journalist
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Jonathan Higgs (born 1985), English singer-songwriter and musician
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Ken Higgs (1937–2016), English cricketer
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Ken Higgs (Canadian football) (1930–2002), Canadian football player
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Kenneth Higgs (1886–1959), English cricketer
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Kenny Higgs (born 1955), American retired basketball player, brother of Mark Higgs
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Lesley Higgs (born 1965), English footballer
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Mark Higgs (born 1966), American football player who played in the National Football League, brother of Kenny Higgs
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Mark Higgs (cricketer) (born 1976), Australian cricketer
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Mary Higgs (1854–1937), British writer and social reformer
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Matthew Higgs (born 1964), English artist, curator, writer and publisher
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Michael Higgs (born 1962), English actor
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Michael Higgs (politician) (1912–1995), British Member of Parliament
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Mike Higgs, British comic book artist, writer, designer, and editor
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Montague Higgs (1939–2006), Bahamian sailor
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Nate Higgs
Nathan Lee "Nate" Higgs (born October 21, 1970) is an American/Spanish basketball player and coach.
Personal information
Higgs is 6'7" tall.
Graduated from Tarboro High School in Tarboro, N.C.
College
Higgs played for the Elizabeth City State U ...
(born 1970), American/Spanish basketball player and coach
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Nick Higgs, English businessman and football club chairman
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Peter Higgs
Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel ...
(1929–2024), British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, namesake of the Higgs boson particle
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Ray Higgs (born 1950), Australian rugby league footballer
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Raymond Higgs (born 1991), Bahamian long jumper
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Rebekah Higgs (born 1982), Canadian singer
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Robert Higgs (born 1944), American economist
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Robert W. Higgs (born 1957), South African admiral
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Russell Shaw Higgs (born 1960), British artist and political activist
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Shane Higgs (born 1977), English footballer
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Suzanne Higgs, English psychologist
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Teddy Higgs (died 1950), British tennis player
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Tracy Higgs (born 1970), British psychic and television personality
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Walter Higgs (1886–1961), British Member of Parliament
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William Higgs (disambiguation), various people
Fictional characters
*Higgs, narrator in the 1872 novel ''
Erewhon
''Erewhon: or, Over the Range'' () is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler (novelist), Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian ...
'' by Samuel Butler
*John Higgs, a
silent character in ''The Archers'' on BBC Radio 4
*Higgs Monaghan, an antagonist in Hideo Kojima's 2019 video game ''
Death Stranding''
See also
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HIG (disambiguation)
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English-language surnames