TY - JOUR
T1 - Fermions on an interval
T2 - Quark and lepton masses without a Higgs
AU - Csáki, Csaba
AU - Grojean, Christophe
AU - Hubisz, Jay
AU - Shirman, Yuri
AU - Terning, John
PY - 2004/7
Y1 - 2004/7
N2 - We consider fermions on an extra dimensional interval. We find the boundary conditions at the ends of the interval that are consistent with the variational principle, and explain which ones arise in various physical circumstances. We apply these results to Higgsless models of electroweak symmetry breaking, where electroweak symmetry is not broken by a scalar vacuum expectation value, but rather by the boundary conditions of the gauge fields. We show that it is possible to find a set of boundary conditions for bulk fermions that would give a realistic fermion mass spectrum without the presence of a Higgs scalar, and present some sample fermion mass spectra for the standard model quarks and leptons as well as their resonances.
AB - We consider fermions on an extra dimensional interval. We find the boundary conditions at the ends of the interval that are consistent with the variational principle, and explain which ones arise in various physical circumstances. We apply these results to Higgsless models of electroweak symmetry breaking, where electroweak symmetry is not broken by a scalar vacuum expectation value, but rather by the boundary conditions of the gauge fields. We show that it is possible to find a set of boundary conditions for bulk fermions that would give a realistic fermion mass spectrum without the presence of a Higgs scalar, and present some sample fermion mass spectra for the standard model quarks and leptons as well as their resonances.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.015012
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.015012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4344683301
SN - 0556-2821
VL - 70
SP - 015012-1-015012-18
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 1
M1 - 015012
ER -