Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 60: 285-289
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0875-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Walking behavior in technicolored GUTs

Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná–UTFPR–COMAT, Via do Conhecimento Km 01, 85503-390, Pato Branco, PR, Brazil

^* e-mail: doff@ift.unesp.br

Received: 16 June 2008
Revised: 10 December 2008
Published online: 10 February 2009

Abstract

There exist two ways to obtain walk behavior: assuming a large number of technifermions in the fundamental representation of the technicolor (TC) gauge group, or a small number of technifermions, assuming that these fermions are in higher-dimensional representations of the TC group. We propose a scheme to obtain the walking behavior based on technicolored GUTs (TGUTs), where elementary scalars with the TC degree of freedom may remain in the theory after the GUT symmetry breaking.