Electroweak symmetry breaking as a proximity effect

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2008-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1403v2

JHEP 0903:118,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

16 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added, minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/118

The proximity effect in condensed matter physics is a mechanism that naturally produces weak superconductivity. We argue that a braneworld can similarly produce a low-energy breaking of the electroweak symmetry, provided that in addition to the "normal" region, occupied by the conventional phase of QCD, there is a bulk region where the color is in an anisotropic (layered) state with a larger confinement scale. The W and Z bosons, as well as the quarks, acquire masses by scattering off the layered region. A peculiar feature of this scenario is that the strongly interacting sector responsible for the symmetry breaking can be much lighter than the conventional 1 TeV.

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