Fermion masses in emergent electroweak symmetry breaking

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DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)075zbMATH Open1294.81331arXiv1006.3322OpenAlexW1978417872MaRDI QIDQ406985FDOQ406985

James Stokes, Tony Gherghetta, Yanou Cui

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the generation of fermion masses in an emergent model of electroweak symmetry breaking with composite W,Z gauge bosons. A universal bulk fermion profile in a warped extra dimension is used for all fermion flavors. Electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV (or Planck) scale where boundary mass terms are added to generate the fermion flavor structure. This leads to flavor-dependent nonuniversality in the gauge couplings. The effects are suppressed for the light fermion generations but are enhanced for the top quark where the and couplings can deviate at the 1020% level in the minimal setup. By the AdS/CFT correspondence our model implies that electroweak symmetry is not a fundamental gauge symmetry. Instead the Standard Model with massive fermions and W,Z gauge bosons is an effective chiral Lagrangian for some underlying confining strong dynamics at the TeV scale, where mass is generated without a Higgs mechanism.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3322




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