Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-10-11
Phys.Rev.D71:035007,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
50 pages, 11 eps figures, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.035007
We calculate the form of the corrections to the electroweak interactions in the class of Higgsless models which can be "deconstructed'' to a chain of SU(2) gauge groups adjacent to a chain of U(1) gauge groups, and with the fermions coupled to any single SU(2) group and to any single U(1) group along the chain. The primary advantage of our technique is that the size of corrections to electroweak processes can be directly related to the spectrum of vector bosons ("KK modes"). In Higgsless models, this spectrum is constrained by unitarity. Our methods also allow for arbitrary background 5-D geometry, spatially dependent gauge-couplings, and brane kinetic energy terms. We find that, due to the size of corrections to electroweak processes in any unitary theory, Higgsless models with localized fermions are disfavored by precision electroweak data. Although we stress our results as they apply to continuum Higgsless 5-D models, they apply to any linear moose model including those with only a few extra vector bosons. Our calculations of electroweak corrections also apply directly to the electroweak gauge sector of 5-D theories with a bulk scalar Higgs boson; the constraints arising from unitarity do not apply in this case.
Chivukula Sekhar R.
He Hong-Jian
Kurachi Masafumi
Simmons Elizabeth H.
Tanabashi Masaharu
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