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We investigate the Higgs-like excitations of artificial gauge potential in cold atoms.We demonstrate that when a non-Abelian gauge potential is reduced to Abelian potential, its Abelian part constructs spin-orbit coupling, and its non-Abelian part emerges Higgs-like excitations.Distinguishing from the Higgs amplitude mode which is collective excitations in many-body systems, the Higgs-like excitations belong to single-excitations in non-Abelian gauge potential system.The Higgs-like excitations induce a mass of the non-Abelian gauge field, which offsets the defect of massless of the gauge theories.We show that the mass of gauge field can affect the spin Hall currents which are produced by the spin-orbit coupling.We also discuss the observation of these phenomena in real experiment.