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technicolor

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Physics

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theory (physics), model (physics)

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Idea

In the context of the standard model of particle physics, technicolor is a proposal for realizing electroweak symmetry breaking? not via a Higgs boson which is a fundamental particle, but by realizing it as a bound state of auxiliary fermions and introduing new gauge fields.

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Revised on December 14, 2012 06:43:41 by Urs Schreiber (71.195.68.239)