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Mirror Families in Electro-weak Symmetry Breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We study symmetry breaking in a left-right symmetric extension of the Standard Model with mirror fermions, one for each Standard-Model fermion. The new particles assist a top-quark condensate in breaking electro-weak symmetry. Half of the fermions acquire electro-weak-invariant masses at around 500 GeV and would be probably accessible at future high-energy experiments like LHC or NLC. The contributions to the S and T parameters are small and negative in accordance with electro-weak precision data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9803383,
  title  = {Mirror Families in Electro-weak Symmetry Breaking},
  author = {Manfred Lindner and George Triantaphyllou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9803383},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 Latex pages, paper to appear in Physics Letters B