• DOI:10.1103/PHYSREVD.43.3011
• Corpus ID: 6575294

Electroweak symmetry breaking by fourth-generation condensates and the neutrino spectrum.

@article{Hill1991ElectroweakSB,
  title={Electroweak symmetry breaking by fourth-generation condensates and the neutrino spectrum.},
  author={Hill and Luty and Paschos},
  journal={Physical review. D, Particles and fields},
  year={1991},
  volume={43 9},
  pages={
          3011-3025
        }
}

• Hill, Luty, Paschos
• Published 1 May 1991
• Physics
• Physical review. D, Particles and fields

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 {ital M}{sub {ital Z}}/2 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.