# Phase of confined electroweak force in the early Universe

@article{Berger2019PhaseOC,
title={Phase of confined electroweak force in the early Universe},
author={J. Berger and A. J. Long and Jessica Turner},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2019},
volume={100},
pages={055005}
}
• Published 2019
• Physics
• Physical Review D
We consider a modified cosmological history in which the presence of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics causes the weak gauge sector, $\mathrm{SU}(2)_L$, to confine before it is Higgsed. Under the assumption of chiral symmetry breaking, quark and lepton weak doublets form condensates that break the global symmetries of the Standard Model, including baryon and lepton number, down to a $\mathrm{U}(1)$ subgroup under which only the weak singlet fermions and Higgs transform. The weakly-coupled gauge… Expand
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