Electroweak symmetry breaking by fourth-generation condensates and the neutrino spectrum
- 1 May 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 43 (9) , 3011-3025
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.43.3011
Abstract
We consider a new mechanism for dynamical symmetry breaking of the electroweak symmetries involving condensates of fourth-generation quarks and leptons. A dynamical generalization of the seesaw mechanism is proposed based upon the BCS theory in which a neutrino condensate gives rise to right-handed-neutrino Majorana masses and all associated spin-zero bosons are composite. The fourth-generation neutrino is naturally heavier than and the scale of new physics is bounded above. The renormalization-group equations for the effective Lagrangian of this model are derived and used to solve the model. Implications for neutrino masses are discussed.
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