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Quantum Aspects of Natural Top Quark Condensation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-22 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In top quark condensation the Brout-Englert-Higgs (BEH) boson is a tˉt\bar{t}t bound state. With a UV completion of a single coloron exchange interaction, a recent semiclassical treatment gave a novel theory of the BEH boson as an extended object with composite scale M06M_0\sim 6 TeV. Presently we obtain the semiclassical theory as an effective action, using the source/Legendre transformation techniques of Jackiw, \etal, and fermion loop effects in the large-NcN_c limit by deploying an auxiliary field to implement the sum of leading fermion loop diagrams. The theory remains natural at the loop level, with fine tuning at the level of a few \%, and the effective coupling of the 4-fermion interaction, gˉ02\bar{g}_0^2, is significantly enhanced by quantum loops over the fundamental coloron coupling, g02g_0^2. Hence a relatively weaker ``topcolor'' theory can produce critical coupling in the effective BEH bound state theory.

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@article{arxiv.2507.21243,
  title  = {Quantum Aspects of Natural Top Quark Condensation},
  author = {Christopher T. Hill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21243},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

17 pages; v3 fixes typos; additional discussion on relative time;