Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-02-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
60 pages, LaTex, with two postscript figures
Scientific paper
These two lectures on technicolor and extended technicolor (ETC) were presented at l'Ecole de GIF at LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France, in September 2001. In Lecture I, the motivation and structure of this theory of dynamical breaking of electroweak and flavor symmetries is summarized. The main phenomenological obstacles to this picture--flavor-changing neutral currents, precision electroweak measurements, and the large top-quark mass--are reviewed. Then, their proposed resolutions--walking technicolor and topcolor-assisted technicolor are discussed. In Lecture II, a scenario for CP violation is presented based on vacuum alignment for technifermions and quarks. It has the novel feature of CP--violating phases that are rational multiples of pi to better than one part in 10^{10} without fine-tuning of parameters. The scheme thereby avoids light axions and a massless up quark. The mixing of neutral mesons, the mechanism of top--quark mass generation, and the CP--violating parameters epsilon and sin(2 beta) strongly constrain the form of ETC--generated quark mass matrices.
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