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An introduction to technicolor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-26 v2

Abstract

In these lectures we present the motivation for dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and its most popular realization, technicolor. We introduce the basic ideas of technicolor and its companion theory of flavor, extended technicolor. We review the classical theory of technicolor, based on naive scaling from quantum chromodynamics, and discuss the classical theory's fatal flaws. Finally, we describe the principal attempt to correct these flaws, the theory of walking technicolor.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9401324,
  title  = {An introduction to technicolor},
  author = {Kenneth Lane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9401324},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Lectures given June 30-July 2, 1993 at the Theoretical Advanced Studies Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder. 32 pages