Planck scale from top condensation

Journal Article · Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.065004· OSTI ID:21409418

Yang, Bai ^[1]; Carena, Marcela ^[1]; Ponton, Eduardo ^[2]

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1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 W. 120th St, New York, New York 10027 (United States)

We propose a scenario in which the Planck scale is dynamically linked to the electroweak scale induced by top condensation. The standard model field content, without the Higgs, is promoted to a 5D warped background. There is also an additional 5D fermion with the quantum numbers of the right-handed top. Localization of the zero-modes leads, at low-energies, to a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model that also stabilizes the radion field dynamically thus explaining the hierarchy between the Planck scale and v{sub EW}=174 GeV. The top mass arises dynamically from the electroweak breaking condensate. The other standard model fermion masses arise naturally from higher-dimension operators, and the fermion mass hierarchies and flavor structure can be explained from the localization of the zero-modes in the extra dimension. If other contributions to the radion potential except those directly related to electroweak symmetry breaking are engineered to be suppressed, the KK scale is predicted to be about 2 orders of magnitude above the electroweak scale, rendering the model easily consistent with electroweak precision data. The model predicts a heavy (composite) Higgs with a mass of about 500 GeV and standard-model-like properties, and a vectorlike quark with non-negligible mixing with the top quark and mass in the 1.6-2.9 TeV range. Both can be within the reach of the LHC. It also predicts a radion with a mass of a few GeV that is very weakly coupled to standard model matter.

• OSTI ID: 21409418
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.065004; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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