Chiral freedom and the scale of weak interactions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-05-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
A second rank antisymmetric tensor field is proposed as an alternative to the Higgs scalar. No mass term is allowed by the symmetries. At the scale where the asymptotically free chiral couplings of the fermions grow large, condensates of top-antitop and bottom-antibottom may induce the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak gauge symmetry. This would solve the gauge hierarchy problem by dimensional transmutation, similar to QCD.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0503164,
title = {Chiral freedom and the scale of weak interactions},
author = {C. Wetterich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0503164},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
extended discussion of consistency and mass generation, 4 pages