Electroweak symmetry breaking: Higgs/whatever
In the first of these two lectures the Higgs mechanism is reviewed in its most general form, which does not necessarily require the existence of Higgs bosons. The general consequences of the hypothesis that electroweak symmetry breaking is due to the Higgs mechanism are deduced just from gauge invariance and unitarity. In the second lecture the general properties are illustrated with three specific models: the Weinberg-Salam model, its minimal supersymmetric extension, and technicolor. The second lecture concludes with a discussion of the experiment signals for strong WW scattering, whose presence or absence will allow us to determine whether the symmetry breaking sector lies above or below 1 TeV. 57 refs.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/ER
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 5121502
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-27730; CONF-8907134--5; ON: DE90006109
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FIELD THEORIES
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HIGGS BOSONS
INTERMEDIATE BOSONS
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION
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