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Renormalizable top-quark condensate models

Stephen P. Martin

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Recently it has been suggested that electroweak symmetry is broken by a top-quark vacuum condensate. We discuss the prospects for making a renormalizable version of this ``top bootstrap'' scenario using a strongly coupled spontaneously broken gauge interaction. Several specific models are considered. We argue that these models are somewhat similar to the extended technicolor models, but with a ``technicolor'' force which is broken, providing the mass-generation mechanism for the top quark. From this point of view, the top quark plays the role of a techniquark.

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Recently it has been suggested that electroweak symmetry is broken by a top-quark vacuum condensate. We discuss the prospects for making a renormalizable version of this ``top bootstrap'' scenario using a strongly coupled spontaneously broken gauge interaction. Several specific models are considered. We argue that these models are somewhat similar to the extended technicolor models, but with a ``technicolor'' force which is broken, providing the mass-generation mechanism for the top quark. From this point of view, the top quark plays the role of a techniquark.

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Recently it has been suggested that electroweak symmetry is broken by a top-quark vacuum condensate. We discuss the prospects for making a renormalizable version of this ``top bootstrap'' scenario using a strongly coupled spontaneously broken gauge interaction. Several specific models are considered. We argue that these models are somewhat similar to the extended technicolor models, but with a ``technicolor'' force which is broken, providing the mass-generation mechanism for the top quark. From this point of view, the top quark plays the role of a techniquark.

Key concepts: Technicolor, Physics, Electroweak interaction, Top quark, Particle physics, Top quark condensate, Quark, Symmetry breaking

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