Electroweak Symmetry Breaking via Top Condensation Seesaw

Bogdan A. Dobrescu (Fermilab); Christopher T. Hill (Fermilab; Univ. of Chicago)

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Electroweak Symmetry Breaking via Top Condensation Seesaw

Bogdan A. Dobrescu (Fermilab), Christopher T. Hill (Fermilab, Univ. of Chicago)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 9 Dec 1997

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The authors' main claim We propose a new mechanism in which all of the electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by a natural top quark condensate, produced by topcolor interactions at a multi-TeV scale.

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CitationBogdan A. Dobrescu (Fermilab), Christopher T. Hill (Fermilab, Univ. of Chicago). "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking via Top Condensation Seesaw." arXiv:hep-ph/9712319 (1997). https://pith.science/paper/QOCYQ7EK

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We propose a new mechanism in which all of the electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by a natural top quark condensate, produced by topcolor interactions at a multi-TeV scale. The scheme allows the observed top quark mass, and acceptable T and S parameters, by invoking a seesaw mechanism involving mixing of the top with an additional isosinglet quark.

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We propose a new mechanism in which all of the electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by a natural top quark condensate, produced by topcolor interactions at a multi-TeV scale. The scheme allows the observed top quark mass, and acceptable T and S parameters, by invoking a seesaw mechanism involving mixing of the top with an additional isosinglet quark.

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