Top quark condensate

Top quark condensate

In particle physics, the top quark condensate theory is an alternative to the Standard Model in which a fundamental scalar Higgs field is replaced by a composite field composed of the top quark and its antiquark. The top quark is chosen because it is the most massive among all quarks (its measured mass of approximately 173 GeV is comparable to the electroweak scale).

In group representation theory, a quark is described by a Dirac spinor, which can be thought of as a pair of Weyl spinors describing the left-handed (negative helicity) and the right-handed (positive helicity) quark.

The relevant fields forming the top quark condensate are
* The left-handed top quark, belonging to a (3,2)_{1over 6} representation;
* The left-handed antitop antiquark, belonging to (ar{3},1)_{-{2over 3 representation.

In these groups, the left number refers to "SU(3)" of Quantum chromodynamics, whereas the second denotes the representation under "SU(2)". The subscript labels the hypercharge.

The top and antitop quark form a bound state described by a (1,2)_{-{1over 2 composite scalar field, which forms a fermion condensate, which subsequently breaks the electroweak and hypercharge symmetry into electromagnetism.

This model predicts how the electroweak scale may match the top quark mass. The idea was first described by Yoichiro Nambu and by Vladimir Miransky, Masaharu Tanabashi, and Koichi Yamawaki. It was developed into a more predictive scheme, based upon the renormalization group, by
William A. Bardeen, Christopher T. Hill, and Manfred Lindner. Top quark condensation isessentially based upon the "quasi-infrared fixed point" forthe top quark Higgs-Yukawa coupling, proposed in 1981 by
C. T. Hill.

In 1991, Anna Hasenfratz and Peter Hasenfratz "et al." claimed the model is approximately equivalent to a fundamental Higgs scalar field. This equivalence is exact in the limit of the large number of colors. However, even for a finite number of colors, it was claimed that new predictions cannot be derived from a top quark condensate (if the cutoff scale is high). This, however, presumes a bizarre notion of physical compositeness, in which a boundstate could be essentially decoupled from its constituents near its compositeness scale by theeffects of superstrong irrelevant operators.

Top condensation arises naturally in
Topcolor models, that are extensions of the standard model in analogy to Quantum Chromodynamics.To be natural, without excessive fine-tuning (i.e. to stabilize the Higgs mass from large radiative corrections), the theory requires new physics at a relatively low energy scale. Placing new physics at 10 TeV, for instance, the model (incorrectly) predicts that the top quark to be significantly heavier than observed (at about 600 GeV vs. 171 GeV). "Top Seesaw" models, also based upon Topcolor, circumvent this difficulty. These theories will be tested at the LHC.

See also

* Fermion condensate
* Technicolor (physics)
* Hierarchy problem
* Topcolor

References

* "Dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking with large anomalous dimension and t quark condensate." Vladimir A. Miransky, Masaharu Tanabashi, and Koichi Yamawaki, Published in Phys. Lett., B221:177, 1989.
* "Minimal Dynamical Symmetry Breaking of the Standard Model." William A. Bardeen, Christopher T. Hill, Manfred Lindner, Published in Phys.Rev. D41:1647, 1990.


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