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Unnatural origin of fermion masses for technicolor

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We explore the scenario in which the breaking of the electroweak symmetry is due to the simultaneous presence and interplay of a dynamical sector and an unnatural elementary Higgs. We introduce a low energy effective Lagrangian and constrain the various couplings via direct search limits and electroweak and flavor precision tests. We find that the model we study is a viable model of dynamical breaking of the electroweak symmetry.

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    Matti Antola & Matti Heikinheimo

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    Matti Antola, Matti Heikinheimo & Kimmo Tuominen

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Antola, M., Heikinheimo, M., Sannino, F. et al. Unnatural origin of fermion masses for technicolor. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 50 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2010)050

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