Published November 17, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Heavy quarks and electroweak symmetry breaking

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5SX7 Canada

Description

It is proposed that a dynamical mass for a fourth family of quarks is responsible for breaking of the weak interactions, and for breaking of the extended-technicolor interactions which provide mass to the third family. This greatly simplifies the extended technicolor sector and avoids fermions with exotic quantum numbers. A technicolor sector is still required, but it is lighter than usual. The most-attractive-channel hypothesis for symmetry breakdown is relied on

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
57
Journal Issue
20
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
2496-2499
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA