Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Gauge/Gravity Duality

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09100076,
            doi = {10.48660/09100076},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09100076},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Gauge/Gravity Duality},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:09100076 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

We utilize the tools of the gauge/gravity correspondence in order to investigate electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). For quite some time now, a walking technicolor sector has been viewed by phenomenologists as a very promising alternative to the Higgs boson. Unfortunately however, no precise computations have been possible since in the technicolor gauge theory EWSB is due to strong-coupling dynamics. Using recent developments in the gauge/gravity duality, we construct a gravity dual of a walking technicolor model and aim to compute the Peskin-Takeuchi S-parameter, which is an observable that can distinguish between a Higgs and a technicolor sector.