Technicolor
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Date
1996-01-01
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Lane, Kenneth D.
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K. Lane. 1996. "Technicolor." HISTORY OF ORIGINAL IDEAS AND BASIC DISCOVERIES IN PARTICLE PHYSICS. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics. ERICE, ITALY, 1994-07-27 - 1994-08-04. https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9501249
Abstract
Technicolor, with extended technicolor, is the theory of dynamical electroweak and
flavor symmetry breaking at energies far below the Planck scale. To motivate it, I describe
the most important difficulties of the standard electroweak model of symmetry breaking
by elementary scalar bosons. I then tell how technicolor deals with these difficulties in
a way that is both technically and physically natural. Finally, I discuss the problems of
technicolor, both past and present.