Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Discovering Technicolor

  • Review
  • Published:
The European Physical Journal Plus Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We provide a pedagogical introduction to extensions of the Standard Model in which the Higgs is composite. These extensions are known as models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking or, in brief, Technicolor. Material covered includes: motivations for Technicolor, the construction of underlying gauge theories leading to minimal models of Technicolor, the comparison with electroweak precision data, the low-energy effective theory, the spectrum of the states common to most of the Technicolor models, the decays of the composite particles and the experimental signals at the Large Hadron Collider. The level of the presentation is aimed at readers familiar with the Standard Model but who have little or no prior exposure to Technicolor. Several extensions of the Standard Model featuring a composite Higgs can be reduced to the effective Lagrangian introduced in the text. We establish the relevant experimental benchmarks for Vanilla, Running, Walking, and Custodial Technicolor, and a natural fourth family of leptons, by laying out the framework to discover these models at the Large Hadron Collider.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. H. Flacher, M. Goebel, J. Haller, A. Hocker, K. Monig, J. Stelzer, Eur. Phys. J. C 60, 543 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. J. Ellis, Nucl. Phys. A 827, 187 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. G. Altarelli, arXiv:0902.2797 [hep-ph]

  4. G.F. Giudice, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 110, 012014 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. M.L. Mangano, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 23, 3833 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. G. Altarelli, arXiv:0805.1992 [hep-ph]

  7. R. Barbieri, Nuovo Cimento B 123, 485 (2008)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. A. De Roeck et al., Eur. Phys. J. C 66, 525 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. E. Accomando, arXiv:hep-ph/0608079

  10. S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. D 19, 1277 (1979)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. L. Susskind, Phys. Rev. D 20, 2619 (1979)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. F. Sannino, Acta Phys. Polon. B 40, 3533 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  13. F. Sannino, arXiv:0804.0182 [hep-ph]

  14. C.T. Hill, E.H. Simmons, Phys. Rep. 381, 235 (2003)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  15. K. Lane, arXiv:hep-ph/0202255

  16. F. Sannino, K. Tuominen, Phys. Rev. D 71, 051901 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. D.D. Dietrich, F. Sannino, K. Tuominen, Phys. Rev. D 72, 055001 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. D.D. Dietrich, F. Sannino, K. Tuominen, Phys. Rev. D 73, 037701 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. R. Foadi, M.T. Frandsen, T.A. Ryttov, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 76, 055005 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. D.D. Dietrich, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 75, 085018 (2007)

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  Google Scholar 

  21. C. Pica, F. Sannino, arXiv:1011.3832 [hep-ph]

  22. T.A. Ryttov, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 78, 065001 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  23. R. Shrock, arXiv:hep-ph/0703050

  24. S. Sarkar, Rep. Prog. Phys. 59, 1493 (1996)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  25. M.S. Chanowitz, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 38, 323 (1988)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  26. E. Farhi, L. Susskind, Phys. Rep. 74, 277 (1981)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  27. R.K. Kaul, Rev. Mod. Phys. 55, 449 (1983)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  28. R.S. Chivukula, arXiv:hep-ph/0011264

  29. G. ’t Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B 72, 461 (1974)

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  Google Scholar 

  30. E. Witten, Nucl. Phys. B 160, 57 (1979)

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  Google Scholar 

  31. G. ’t Hooft, C. Itzykson, A. Jaffe, H. Lehmann, P.K. Mitter, I.M. Singer, R. Stora, NATO ASI Ser. B 59, 438 (1980)

    Google Scholar 

  32. M.E. Peskin, T. Takeuchi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 964 (1990)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  33. M.E. Peskin, T. Takeuchi, Phys. Rev. D 46, 381 (1992)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  34. D.C. Kennedy, P. Langacker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2967 (1990)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  35. G. Altarelli, R. Barbieri, Phys. Lett. B 253, 161 (1991)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  36. I. Maksymyk, C.P. Burgess, D. London, Phys. Rev. D 50, 529 (1994)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  37. R. Barbieri, A. Pomarol, R. Rattazzi, A. Strumia, Nucl. Phys. B 703, 127 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  38. R.S. Chivukula, E.H. Simmons, H.J. He, M. Kurachi, M. Tanabashi, Phys. Lett. B 603, 210 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  39. M.E. Peskin, J.D. Wells, Phys. Rev. D 64, 093003 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  40. E. Eichten, K.D. Lane, Phys. Lett. B 90, 125 (1980)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  41. S. Dimopoulos, L. Susskind, Nucl. Phys. B 155, 237 (1979)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  42. E. Farhi, L. Susskind, Phys. Rev. D 20, 3404 (1979)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  43. T. Appelquist, N.D. Christensen, M. Piai, R. Shrock, Phys. Rev. D 70, 093010 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  44. T.A. Ryttov, R. Shrock, Phys. Rev. D 82, 055012 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  45. T.A. Ryttov, R. Shrock, Phys. Rev. D 81, 116003 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  46. T.A. Ryttov, R. Shrock, Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1523 (2011)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  47. T.A. Ryttov, R. Shrock, Phys. Rev. D 81, 115013 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  48. K. Yamawaki, M. Bando, K.i. Matumoto, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1335 (1986)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  49. B. Holdom, Phys. Lett. B 150, 301 (1985)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  50. B. Holdom, Phys. Rev. D 24, 1441 (1981)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  51. T.W. Appelquist, D. Karabali, L.C.R. Wijewardhana, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 957 (1986)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  52. M. Antola, M. Heikinheimo, F. Sannino, K. Tuominen, JHEP 1003, 050 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  53. M. Antola, S. Di Chiara, F. Sannino, K. Tuominen, arXiv:1001.2040 [hep-ph]

  54. H.S. Fukano, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 82, 035021 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  55. K. Kondo, M. Tanabashi, K. Yamawaki, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 8, 2859 (1993)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  56. H.S. Fukano, F. Sannino, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 25, 3911 (2010)

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  57. E. Witten, Phys. Lett. B 117, 324 (1982)

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  Google Scholar 

  58. D.K. Hong, S.D.H. Hsu, F. Sannino, Phys. Lett. B 597, 89 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  59. R. Casalbuoni, A. Deandrea, S. De Curtis, D. Dominici, R. Gatto, M. Grazzini, Phys. Rev. D 53, 5201 (1996)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  60. T. Appelquist, P.S. Rodrigues da Silva, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 60, 116007 (1999)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  61. T. Appelquist, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 59, 067702 (1999)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  62. R. Sundrum, S.D.H. Hsu, Nucl. Phys. B 391, 127 (1993)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  63. M. Kurachi, R. Shrock, Phys. Rev. D 74, 056003 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  64. Particle Data Group (K. Nakamura et al.), J. Phys. G 37, 075021 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  65. H.J. He, N. Polonsky, S.F. Su, Phys. Rev. D 64, 053004 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  66. K. Kainulainen, K. Tuominen, J. Virkajarvi, Phys. Rev. D 75, 085003 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  67. N.D. Christensen, R. Shrock, Phys. Lett. B 632, 92 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  68. S.D.H. Hsu, F. Sannino, Phys. Lett. B 605, 369 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  69. N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, JHEP 0506, 073 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  70. G.F. Giudice, A. Romanino, Nucl. Phys. B 699, 65 (2004)

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  71. T.A. Ryttov, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 78, 115010 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  72. K.D. Lane, E. Eichten, Phys. Lett. B 222, 274 (1989)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  73. A. Belyaev, R. Foadi, M.T. Frandsen, M. Jarvinen, F. Sannino, A. Pukhov, Phys. Rev. D 79, 035006 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  74. A. Doff, A.A. Natale, P.S. Rodrigues da Silva, Phys. Rev. D 77, 075012 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  75. M. Fabbrichesi, M. Piai, L. Vecchi, Phys. Rev. D 78, 045009 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  76. M. Harada, F. Sannino, J. Schechter, Phys. Rev. D 69, 034005 (2004)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  77. F. Sannino, J. Schechter, Phys. Rev. D 76, 014014 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  78. R. Foadi, M. Jarvinen, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 79, 035010 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  79. R. Foadi, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 78, 037701 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  80. M. Harada, F. Sannino, J. Schechter, Phys. Rev. D 54, 1991 (1996)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  81. D. Black, A.H. Fariborz, S. Moussa, S. Nasri, J. Schechter, Phys. Rev. D 64, 014031 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  82. Z.y. Duan, P.S. Rodrigues da Silva, F. Sannino, Nucl. Phys. B 592, 371 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  83. R. Foadi, M.T. Frandsen, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 77, 097702 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  84. MadGraph/MadEvent website: http://madgraph.phys.ucl.ac.be

  85. CalcHEP website: http://theory.sinp.msu.ru/pukhov/calchep

  86. L. Del Debbio, A. Patella, C. Pica, Phys. Rev. D 81, 094503 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  87. R. Casalbuoni, S. De Curtis, M. Redi, Eur. Phys. J. C 18, 65 (2000)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  88. G.H. Brooijmans, arXiv:0802.3715 [hep-ph]

  89. CMS Collaboration (G.L. Bayatian), CERN-LHCC-2006-001

  90. H.J. He, LHC Signatures of New Gauge Bosons in Minimal Higgsless Model, arXiv:0708.2588 [hep-ph]

  91. A. Birkedal, K.T. Matchev, M. Perelstein, Phenomenology of Higgsless models at the LHC and the ILC, in Proceedings of the 2005 International Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS 2005), Stanford, California, 18-22 Mar 2005, 0314 [arXiv:hep-ph/0508185]

  92. A.R. Zerwekh, Eur. Phys. J. C 46, 791 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  93. J.F. Gunion, H.E. Haber, G.L. Kane, S. Dawson, Front. Phys. 80, 1 (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  94. M.R. Pennington, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 011601 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  95. F. Giacosa, T. Gutsche, V.E. Lyubovitskij, Phys. Rev. D 77, 034007 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  96. E. van Beveren, F. Kleefeld, G. Rupp, M.D. Scadron, Phys. Rev. D 79, 098501 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  97. M.T. Frandsen, I. Masina, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 81, 035010 (2010)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  98. CDF and D0 Collaboration (T. Aaltonen), arXiv:1005.3216 [hep-ex]

  99. G. Altarelli, arXiv:1011.5342 [hep-ph]

  100. F. del Aguila, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, JHEP 0505, 026 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  101. A. Pukhov, arXiv:hep-ph/0412191

  102. A. Semenov, Comput. Phys. Commun. 180, 431 (2009)

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  103. T. Cuhadar-Donszelmann, M. Karagoz, V.E. Ozcan, S. Sultansoy, G. Unel, JHEP 0810, 074 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  104. G.D. Kribs, T. Plehn, M. Spannowsky, T.M.P. Tait, Phys. Rev. D 76, 075016 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  105. W.Y. Keung, P. Schwaller, arXiv:1103.3765 [hep-ph]

  106. B. Holdom, W.S. Hou, T. Hurth, M.L. Mangano, S. Sultansoy, G. Unel, PMC Phys. A 3, 4 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  107. L. Basso, A. Belyaev, S. Moretti, C.H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, Phys. Rev. D 80, 055030 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  108. R.M. Godbole, M. Guchait, K. Mazumdar, S. Moretti, D.P. Roy, Phys. Lett. B 571, 184 (2003)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  109. H. Davoudiasl, T. Han, H.E. Logan, Phys. Rev. D 71, 115007 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  110. F. Meisel, M. Duhrssen, M. Heldmann, K. Jacobs, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2006-009

  111. OPAL Collaboration (G. Abbiendi et al.), Eur. Phys. J. C 49, 457 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  112. R. Foadi, M.T. Frandsen, F. Sannino, Phys. Rev. D 80, 037702 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  113. P. Gagnon, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-011

  114. M. Fairbairn, A.C. Kraan, D.A. Milstead, T. Sjostrand, P.Z. Skands, T. Sloan, Phys. Rep. 438, 1 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  115. B.C. Allanach, C.M. Harris, M.A. Parker, P. Richardson, B.R. Webber, JHEP 0108, 051 (2001)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  116. ATLAS Collaboration and CMS Collaboration (S. Giagu), arXiv:0810.1453 [hep-ex]

  117. F. del Aguila, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, R. Pittau, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 53, 506 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  118. T. Han, B. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 171804 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  119. A. Atre, T. Han, S. Pascoli, B. Zhang, JHEP 0905, 030 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  120. F. del Aguila, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, JHEP 0711, 072 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  121. CDF Collaboration (A. Abulencia et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 221803 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  122. CDF Collaboration (T. Aaltonen et al.), Phys. Rev. D 79, 011101 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  123. F. del Aguila, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, R. Pittau, JHEP 0710, 047 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  124. J. Alwall et al., JHEP 0709, 028 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  125. A. Pukhov, arXiv:hep-ph/9908288

  126. N.D. Christensen, C. Duhr, Comput. Phys. Commun. 180, 1614 (2009)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  127. N.D. Christensen, P. de Aquino, C. Degrande, C. Duhr, B. Fuks, M. Herquet, F. Maltoni, S. Schumann, Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1541 (2011)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  128. FeynRules website: https://feynrules.phys.ucl.ac.be/wiki

  129. M.T. Frandsen, M. Jarvinen, F. Sannino, [arXiv:1103.3271 [hep-ph]]

  130. J. Alwall et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 176, 300 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    J. R. Andersen, O. Antipin, E. Del Nobile, S. Di Chiara, T. Hapola, I. Masina, M. Nardecchia, C. Pica & F. Sannino

  2. Universite de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    G. Azuelos

  3. TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada

    G. Azuelos

  4. Tait Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    L. Del Debbio & P. J. Lowdon

  5. Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    M. Järvinen

  6. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

    Y. Maravin

  7. Sezione di Ferrara, Università di Ferrara and INFN, Ferrara, Italy

    I. Masina

Authors
  1. J. R. Andersen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. O. Antipin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. G. Azuelos
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. L. Del Debbio
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. E. Del Nobile
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. S. Di Chiara
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. T. Hapola
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. M. Järvinen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. P. J. Lowdon
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. Y. Maravin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  11. I. Masina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  12. M. Nardecchia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  13. C. Pica
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  14. F. Sannino
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to F. Sannino.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Andersen, J.R., Antipin, O., Azuelos, G. et al. Discovering Technicolor. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 126, 81 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11081-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11081-1

Keywords

Search

Navigation