Renormalizable top-quark condensate models

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Recently it has been suggested that electroweak symmetry is broken by a top-quark vacuum condensate. We discuss the prospects for making a renormalizable version of this ‘‘top bootstrap’’ scenario using a strongly coupled spontaneously broken gauge interaction. Several specific models are considered. We argue that these models are somewhat similar to the extended technicolor models, but with a ‘‘technicolor’’ force which is broken, providing the mass-generation mechanism for the top quark. From this point of view, the top quark plays the role of a techniquark.