Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-05-27
Phys.Rev.D58:075004,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, 5 epsf figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.075004
Topcolor and topcolor-assisted technicolor provide examples of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking which include top-condensation, thereby naturally incorporating a heavy top quark. In this note we discuss the roles of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) and large-N approximations often used in phenomenological analyses of these models. We show that, in order to provide for top-condensation but not bottom-condensation, the top-color coupling must be adjusted to equal the critical value for chiral symmetry breaking up to O(1/N) in any theory in which the isospin-violating ``tilting'' interaction is a U(1) gauge interaction. A consequence of these considerations is that the potentially dangerous ``bottom-pions'' are naturally light. We also show that the contributions to rho-1 previously estimated are of leading-order in N, are not included in the usual NJL analysis, and are the result of ``vacuum-alignment''.
Chivukula Sekhar R.
Georgi Howard
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