EPFL seminars

Monopoles, Anomalies, and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Name: Monopoles, Anomalies, and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Start: 2010-04-26T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-04-26T15:30:00+02:00
Location: EPFL, Lausanne

by Prof. John TERNING (UC Davis and CERN)

Monday 26 Apr 2010, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Zurich

Cubotron 727 (EPFL, Lausanne)

Cubotron 727

EPFL, Lausanne

Description

I will discuss how massless fermionic monopoles can condense and break the electroweak gauge symmetry and give a large top quark mass. References: Preskill: Magnetic Monopoles Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.34:461-530,1984; Electroweak Symmetry Breaking From Monopole Condensation. Csaba Csaki, Yuri Shirman, John Terning e-Print: arXiv:1003.1718; Anomaly Constraints on Monopoles and Dyons. Csaba Csaki, John Terning, Yuri Shirman 14pp. e-Print: arXiv:1003.0448