Electroweak symmetry breaking from gauge/gravity duality

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.10.007zbMATH Open1207.81096arXiv1006.3570OpenAlexW2025408794MaRDI QIDQ632053FDOQ632053


Authors: Lilia Anguelova Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 March 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the gauge/gravity duality to study a model of walking technicolor. The latter is a phenomenologically promising framework for dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. A traditional problem for technicolor models has been the need to address gauge theories at strong coupling. Recent developments in gauge/gravity duality provide a powerful tool for handling this problem. First, we revisit previously considered holographic models of QCD-like technicolor from D-branes. In particular, we develop analytical understanding of earlier numerical computations of the Peskin-Takeuchi S-parameter. Then we apply this method to the investigation of a model of walking technicolor, obtained by embedding D7 - anti-D7 probe branes in a recently discovered type IIB background dual to walking behaviour. As a necessary step, we also show that there is an embedding of the techniflavor branes, that realizes chiral symmetry breaking. Finally, we show that the divergences that appear in the S-parameter can be removed by using holographic renormalization.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3570




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