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Fermion Masses in Emergent Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

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Yanou Cui, Tony Gherghetta, James Stokes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 16 Jun 2010

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The authors' main claim Instead the Standard Model with massive fermions and $W,Z$ gauge bosons is an effective chiral Lagrangian for some underlying confining strong dynamics at the TeV scale, where mass is generated without a Higgs mechanism.

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CitationJames Stokes, Tony Gherghetta, Yanou Cui. "Fermion Masses in Emergent Electroweak Symmetry Breaking." arXiv:1006.3322 (2010). https://pith.science/paper/J2YIV6MK
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We consider the generation of fermion masses in an emergent model of electroweak symmetry breaking with composite $W,Z$ gauge bosons. A universal bulk fermion profile in a warped extra dimension is used for all fermion flavors. Electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV (or Planck) scale where boundary mass terms are added to generate the fermion flavor structure. This leads to flavor-dependent nonuniversality in the gauge couplings. The effects are suppressed for the light fermion generations but are enhanced for the top quark where the $Zt{\bar t}$ and $Wt{\bar b}$ couplings can deviate at the $10-20%$ level in the minimal setup. By the AdS/CFT correspondence our model implies that electroweak symmetry is not a fundamental gauge symmetry. Instead the Standard Model with massive fermions and $W,Z$ gauge bosons is an effective chiral Lagrangian for some underlying confining strong dynamics at the TeV scale, where mass is generated without a Higgs mechanism.

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s0 We consider the generation of fermion masses in an emergent model of electroweak symmetry breaking with composite $W,Z$ gauge bosons. contribution 0.91 0.59 0.05 unclear 0.59
s1 A universal bulk fermion profile in a warped extra dimension is used for all fermion flavors. method 0.98 0.70 0.03 asserted 1.00
s2 Electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV (or Planck) scale where boundary mass terms are added to generate the fermion flavor structure. method 0.93 0.55 0.07 asserted 0.98
s3 This leads to flavor-dependent nonuniversality in the gauge couplings. result 0.97 0.77 0.10 asserted 1.00
s4 The effects are suppressed for the light fermion generations but are enhanced for the top quark where the $Zt{\bar t}$ and $Wt{\bar b}$ couplings can deviate at the $10-20%$ level in the minimal setup. result 1.00 0.83 0.17 asserted 0.54
s5 By the AdS/CFT correspondence our model implies that electroweak symmetry is not a fundamental gauge symmetry. interpretation 1.00 0.57 0.29 asserted 0.93
s6 Instead the Standard Model with massive fermions and $W,Z$ gauge bosons is an effective chiral Lagrangian for some underlying confining strong dynamics at the TeV scale, where mass is generated without a Higgs mechanism. interpretation 1.00 0.59 0.65 asserted 0.98

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We consider the generation of fermion masses in an emergent model of electroweak symmetry breaking with composite $W,Z$ gauge bosons. A universal bulk fermion profile in a warped extra dimension is used for all fermion flavors. Electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV (or Planck) scale where boundary mass terms are added to generate the fermion flavor structure. This leads to flavor-dependent nonuniversality in the gauge couplings. The effects are suppressed for the light fermion generations but are enhanced for the top quark where the $Zt{\bar t}$ and $Wt{\bar b}$ couplings can deviate at the $10-20%$ level in the minimal setup. By the AdS/CFT correspondence our model implies that electroweak symmetry is not a fundamental gauge symmetry. Instead the Standard Model with massive fermions and $W,Z$ gauge bosons is an effective chiral Lagrangian for some underlying confining strong dynamics at the TeV scale, where mass is generated without a Higgs mechanism.

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  • It differs from the usual Higgsless model [ref] in that the $W,Z$ bosons are identified as the lowest-lying KK states peaking towards the IR brane (as opposed to the flat zero modes) and therefore via the AdS/CFT dictionary [ref] are composite.

    Towards a Realistic Model of Higgsless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking · The 5D Emergent Model · 0.94

  • It differs from the usual Higgsless model [ref] in that the $W,Z$ bosons are identified as the lowest-lying KK states peaking towards the IR brane (as opposed to the flat zero modes) and therefore via the AdS/CFT dictionary [ref] are composite.

    Holography and Phenomenology · The 5D Emergent Model · 0.94

  • It differs from the usual Higgsless model [ref] in that the $W,Z$ bosons are identified as the lowest-lying KK states peaking towards the IR brane (as opposed to the flat zero modes) and therefore via the AdS/CFT dictionary [ref] are composite.

    The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity · The 5D Emergent Model · 0.94

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