English

Strong Extended Technicolour Interactions and the $Zb\bar{b}$ Vertex

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

LEP precision measurements of the ZbbˉZb\bar{b} vertex coupling are sufficiently accurate to see the non-oblique corrections from the heavy gauge boson responsible for the large top mass in standard extended tecnicolour models. If the ETC couplings are strong the techni-fermion condensate may be enhanced by several orders of magnitude allowing a top mass of order 150GeV to be obtained for large values of the ETC breaking scale sufficient to supress the ETC contribution to the ZbbˉZb{\bar b} vertex. In this letter we investigate the degree of fine tuning of the ETC coupling required in a realistic model. We conclude that the fine tuning need only be of order 10%10\%.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403318,
  title  = {Strong Extended Technicolour Interactions and the $Zb\bar{b}$ Vertex},
  author = {Nick Evans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403318},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages + 3 appended ps figures, SWAT/27