Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Monopole Condensation

Journal Article · Fri Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.106.041802· OSTI ID:21532258

Csaki, Csaba ^[1]; Shirman, Yuri ^[2]; Terning, John ^[3]

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1. Institute for High Energy Phenomenology, Newman Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 (United States)
3. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 (United States) and Physics Department, Theory Unit, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)

We argue that the electroweak symmetry of the standard model (SM) could be broken via condensation of magnetic monopole bilinears. We present an extension of the SM where this could indeed happen, and where the heavy top mass is also a consequence of the magnetic interactions.

• OSTI ID: 21532258
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.041802; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
MASS
STANDARD MODEL
SYMMETRY BREAKING
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FIELD THEORIES
GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MONOPOLES
PARTICLE MODELS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS