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    TH Thursday Seminar

    A model of electroweak symmetry breaking from a fifth dimension

    by Serone, M. (SISSA)

    → Europe/Zurich
    TH Auditorium (CERN)

    TH Auditorium

    CERN
    Description
    The idea of identifying the Higgs field as the internal component of a gauge field in extra dimensions is reconsidered, relaxing the constraint of having unbroken SO(4,1) Lorentz symmetry in the bulk. In this way, the main common problems of previous models of this sort, namely the prediction of a too light Higgs and top mass, as well as of a too low compactification scale, are all solved. We focus on a particular model where the Higgs potential is stabilized and the hierarchy of fermion masses explained.