Symmetry breaking and generational mixing in top-color-assisted technicolor
- Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)
Top-color-assisted technicolor provides a dynanamical explanation for electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking and for the large mass of the top quark without unnatural fine-tuning. A major challenge is to generate the observed mixing between heavy and light generations while breaking the strong top-color interactions near 1 TeV. I argue that these phenomena, as well as electroweak symmetry breaking, are intimately connected and I present a scenario for them based on nontrivial patterns of technifermion condensation. I also exhibit a class of models realizing this scenario. This picture leads to a rich phenomenology, especially in hadron and lepton collider experiments in the few hundred GeV to few TeV region and in precision electroweak tests at the {ital Z}{sup 0}, atomic parity violation, and polarized Mo/ller scattering. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- Research Organization:
- Boston University
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER40676
- OSTI ID:
- 286430
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Vol. 54, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Lepton number violation in top-color assisted technicolor
The light composite Higgs boson in strong extended technicolor