nLab electroweak symmetry breaking

1. Idea

A core ingredient of the standard model of particle physics is electroweak symmetry breaking, the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak field via the Higgs mechanism.

2. Related concepts

• composite Higgs boson

3. References

Surveys include

• S. Dawson, Introduction to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Lectures given at the 1998 Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology, Trieste, Italy, June 29-uly 17, 1998 (arXiv:hepph/9901280)

• Gautam Bhattacharyya, A Pedagogical Review of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios, Rept. Prog. Phys. 74:026201, 2011 (arXiv:0910.5095)

• Brambilla et al., Section 9.2. of: QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories - challenges and perspectives, Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2014; 74(10): 2981 (arXiv:1404.3723, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2981-5)

  (in the context of holographic QCD)

• Antonio Pich, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Boson, Acta Phys. Pol. B 47, 151 (2016) (arXiv:1512.08749)

See also:

• Wikipedia, Higgs mechanism

Discussion of electroweak symmetry breaking by effective field theory and in analogy to chiral perturbation theory of quantum hadrodynamics:

• A. Dobado, J. R. Pelaez, On the Equivalence Theorem in the $\chiPT$ Description of the Symmetry Breaking Sector of the Standard Model, Nucl. Phys. B425:110-136, 1994; ERRATUM-ibid. B434:475, 1995 (arXiv:hep-ph/9401202)

• Gino Isidori, Effective theories of electroweak symmetry breaking, PoS CD09:073, 2009 (arXiv:0911.3219)

Discussion of possible experimental signatures via gravitational waves of primordial cosmic electroweak symmetry breaking:

• Martín Arteaga, Anish Ghoshal, Alessandro Strumia: Gravitational waves and black holes from the phase transition in models of dynamical symmetry breaking [arXiv:2409.04545]