A Pedagogical Review of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios Export

@article{citeulike:6017416, abstract = {The aim of this set of lectures is to review different avenues of electroweak symmetry breaking explored over the years. This constitutes a timely exercise as the world's largest and the highest energy particle accelerator, namely, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, is all set to start running whose primary mission is to unravel the mysteries of electroweak phase transition. In the beginning, we discuss the Standard Model Higgs mechanism. After that we review the Higgs sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Then we take up three relatively recent ideas: Little Higgs, Gauge-Higgs Unification, and Higgsless scenarios. For the latter three cases, we present the basic ideas and restrict our illustrations to some instructive toy models, as our intention is rather to provide an intuitive feel of the underlying dynamics than to get into an in-depth analysis of realistic scenarios. Wherever possible, we provide enough pedagogical details, which the beginners of the subject might find useful.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Bhattacharyya, Gautam}, citeulike-article-id = {6017416}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5095}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.5095}, day = {27}, eprint = {0910.5095}, keywords = {electroweak, symmetry\_breaking}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-28 13:58:20}, priority = {2}, title = {A Pedagogical Review of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5095}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6017416 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6017416 N2 - The aim of this set of lectures is to review different avenues of electroweak symmetry breaking explored over the years. This constitutes a timely exercise as the world's largest and the highest energy particle accelerator, namely, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, is all set to start running whose primary mission is to unravel the mysteries of electroweak phase transition. In the beginning, we discuss the Standard Model Higgs mechanism. After that we review the Higgs sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Then we take up three relatively recent ideas: Little Higgs, Gauge-Higgs Unification, and Higgsless scenarios. For the latter three cases, we present the basic ideas and restrict our illustrations to some instructive toy models, as our intention is rather to provide an intuitive feel of the underlying dynamics than to get into an in-depth analysis of realistic scenarios. Wherever possible, we provide enough pedagogical details, which the beginners of the subject might find useful. TI - A Pedagogical Review of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios KW - electroweak KW - symmetry_breaking AU - Bhattacharyya, Gautam PY - 2009/Oct/27/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5095 ER -