There is a connection between the nature of a particle and the mass that he Higgs field gives it.
First some Higgs field background, all the particles that make up matter have mass — from the lightest, the electron, to the heaviest, the top quark — and can be left- or right-handed, that is the direction in which they spin. This handedness of particles is the means of getting mass from the Higgs field. Although the Standard Model cannot predict their masses, it does provide a mechanism whereby elementary particles acquire mass. This mechanism requires us to accept that the universe is filled with particles that we have not seen yet or at least only at CERN. No matter how empty the vacuum looks, it is packed with particles called Higgs bosons that have zero spin (and are therefore neither left- or right-handed). Quantum field theory and Lorentz invariance show that when a particle is injected into the "vacuum", its handedness changes when it interacts with a Higgs boson. In that meeting with the Higgs boson, the particle starts to spin in the direction that is opposite to the way it was spinning originally. For example, a left-handed electron will become right-handed after the first collision, then left-handed following a second collision, and so on. Put simply, the electron cannot travel through the vacuum at the speed of light because the Higgs field would force it to become massive. Similarly, muons collide with Higgs bosons more frequently than electrons, making them 200 times heavier than the electron, while the top quark interacts with the Higgs boson almost all the time and this type of quark is just about all mass and very heavy. This picture also explains why neutrinos are originally thought to be massless. If a left-handed neutrino tried to collide with the Higgs boson, it would have to become right-handed. Since way back when it was thought that such a state exists, the left-handed neutrino was thought to be unable to interact with the Higgs boson and therefore did not acquire any mass. In this way, massless neutrinos go hand in hand with the absence of right-handed neutrinos in the Standard Model. More recently, it was found experimentally that the left handed neutrino could turn into a right handed neutrino. This neutrino spin flip observation now predicts that the neutrino must have mass. It is not the actual flipping of the particles spin that produced mass; it is just the fact that a particle could have the ability to flip its spin that gives it mass. The mass rule comes down to this: any particle that has an anti-particle or in other words, can flip its spin also has mass given to it by the Higgs boson. This includes particles that can be its own anti-particle call a Majorana fermion, also referred to as a Majorana particle. This is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. It is my contention that elementary particles like photons and electrons can form more complex compound particles called quasiparticles that can acquire mass from the Higgs field through their ability to flip their spin or be their own anti-particle. For example, protons and neutrons are compound particles of different quarks and they both get mass from the Higgs field. Photons and electrons can form a soliton of surface plasmon polaritons. This soliton like any soliton can be considered a particle indistinguishable from real elementary particles. If this SPP soliton is its own anti particle then it can acquire mass from the Higgs boson. This mechanism of SPP formation may be how light can acquire mass. If LENR is occurring all over the cosmos and producing SPP solitons, when photons join with electrons as a Majorana soliton particle, dark matter could be dynamically formed adding a new source of mass to the universe.
