Electroweak Corrections and Unitarity in Linear Moose Models

dc.creatorChivukula, R. Sekhar
dc.creatorHe, Hong-Jian
dc.creatorKurachi, Masafumi
dc.creatorSimmons, Elizabeth H.
dc.creatorTanabashi, Masaharu
dc.date2004-10-11
dc.date2004-10-21
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dc.descriptionWe calculate the form of the corrections to the electroweak interactions in the class of Higgsless models which can be "deconstructed'' to a chain of SU(2) gauge groups adjacent to a chain of U(1) gauge groups, and with the fermions coupled to any single SU(2) group and to any single U(1) group along the chain. The primary advantage of our technique is that the size of corrections to electroweak processes can be directly related to the spectrum of vector bosons ("KK modes"). In Higgsless models, this spectrum is constrained by unitarity. Our methods also allow for arbitrary background 5-D geometry, spatially dependent gauge-couplings, and brane kinetic energy terms. We find that, due to the size of corrections to electroweak processes in any unitary theory, Higgsless models with localized fermions are disfavored by precision electroweak data. Although we stress our results as they apply to continuum Higgsless 5-D models, they apply to any linear moose model including those with only a few extra vector bosons. Our calculations of electroweak corrections also apply directly to the electroweak gauge sector of 5-D theories with a bulk scalar Higgs boson; the constraints arising from unitarity do not apply in this case.
dc.description50 pages, 11 eps figures, typos corrected
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0410154
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0410154
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D71:035007,2005
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.71.035007
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/206253
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleElectroweak Corrections and Unitarity in Linear Moose Models
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