Extra dimensions as an alternative to Higgs mechanism?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We show that a pure gauge theory in higher dimensions may lead to an effective lower-dimensional theory with massive vector field, broken gauge symmetry and no fundamental Higgs boson. The mechanism we propose employs the localization of a vector field on a lower-dimensional defect. No non-zero expectation values of the vector field components along extra dimensions are required. New possibilities for the solution to the gauge hierarchy problem are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0102161,
title = {Extra dimensions as an alternative to Higgs mechanism?},
author = {Mikhail Shaposhnikov and Peter Tinyakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0102161},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 7 pages, 1 fig. Few references added. Final version to appear in Phys.Lett.B