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Testing a dynamical origin of Standard Model fermion masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-02 v2

Abstract

We discuss a test of the Standard Model fermion mass origin in models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. The couplings of composite pseudoscalar resonances to top quarks allow to distinguish high-scale Extended-Technicolor-type fermion mass generation from fermion partial compositeness and low-scale mass generation via an induced vacuum expectation value of a doublet coupled to the composite sector. These different possible origins of fermion masses are thus accessible via weak-scale physics searched for at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1607.01440,
  title  = {Testing a dynamical origin of Standard Model fermion masses},
  author = {Tommi Alanne and Diogo Buarque Franzosi and Mads T. Frandsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01440},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures. Discussion of fermion partial compositeness added, typos improved

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