Higgs | Peter Higgs | Nick Higgs | Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism | Matthew Higgs | Michael Higgs | Mark Higgs (cricketer) | Ludwig Obry's gyroscopic mechanism for steering a Whitehead torpedo | Kenny Higgs | Ken Higgs | Jim Higgs | health (game mechanism) | Generalized TTL security mechanism | Flintlock mechanism | Eric Sidney Higgs | Derek Higgs | Crank (mechanism) | Blake Alphonso Higgs |
2010 Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, Tom Kibble, Robert Brout, Francois Englert, and Peter Higgs: "For elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses." See also 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers, Higgs mechanism, and Higgs boson.
The scalar field is charged, and with an appropriate potential, it has the capacity to break the gauge symmetry via the Abelian Higgs mechanism.