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
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.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2010
