Dynamical Stabilization of the Fermi Scale
Subtitle: Towards a Composite Universe
By: by Francesco Sannino
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9783642333415
Subjects: Quantum theory; Quantum Field Theory Elementary Particles; Physics; String Theory Quantum Field Theories
Description: This lecture-based, concise primer introduces and summarize basic features associated with dynamical breaking of the electroweak symmetry in elementary particle physics. <br>In particular, the phase diagram of strongly-coupled theories as function of the number of colors, flavors and matter representation, playing a fundamental role when trying to construct viable extensions of the standard model, are examined for SU(N) gauge theories with fermionic matter transforming according to arbitrary representations of the underlying gauge group. We will further discuss how the phase diagram can be used to construct unparticle models and then review Minimal Walking Technicolor (MWT) and other extensions, such as partially gauged and split technicolor. <br>Eventually, the unification of the standard model gauge couplings will be revisited within technicolor extensions of the standard model. <br>A number of appendices will help student and newcomers to the field reviewing some basic methods and provide them with useful details.
Table of contents: title: <p>Technicolor Prelude; title: Conformal Dynamics Interlude; title: Minimal Technicolor Models: Toccata and Fugue; title: Composite Dark Matters: Coda; title: Appendix.</p>.