Eur. Phys. J. C (2010) 67: 237-252
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1263-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Electroweak symmetry breaking in other terms

Centre for Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP³-Origins), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

^* e-mail: dietrich@ifk.sdu.dk

Received: 28 April 2008
Revised: 30 September 2008
Published online: 5 March 2010

Abstract

We analyse descriptions of electroweak symmetry breaking in terms of ultralocal antisymmetric tensor fields and gauge-singlet geometric variables, respectively; in particular, the Weinberg–Salam model and, ultimately, dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking by technicolour theories with enhanced symmetry groups. Our motivation is to unveil the manifestly gauge-invariant structure of the different realisations. We find, for example, parallels to different types of torsion.