Electroweak Symmetry Breaking From Monopole Condensation
Abstract
We examine models where massless chiral fermions with both "electric" and "magnetic" hypercharges could form condensates. When some of the fermions are also electroweak doublets such condensates can break the electroweak gauge symmetry down to electromagnetism in the correct way. Since ordinary hypercharge is weakly coupled at the TeV scale, magnetic hypercharge is strongly coupled and can potentially drive the condensation. Such models are similar to technicolor, but with hypercharge playing the role of the technicolor gauge group, so the standard model gauge group breaks itself. A heavy top mass can be generated via the Rubakov-Callan effect and could thus decouple the scale of flavor physics from the electroweak scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.1718,
title = {Electroweak Symmetry Breaking From Monopole Condensation},
author = {Csaba Csaki and Yuri Shirman and John Terning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1718},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Absence of pseudo-Goldstone bosons explain, discussion of the role of flavor physics clarified, other minor changes. References added