%0 Journal Article
%T Electroweak symmetry breaking as a consequence of compact dimensions
%A Bogdan A. Dobrescu
%J Physics
%D 1998
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00839-4
%X It has been shown recently that the Higgs doublet may be composite, with the left-handed top-bottom doublet and a new right-handed anti-quark as constituents bound by some four-quark operators with nonperturbative coefficients. I show that these operators are naturally induced if there are extra space dimensions with a compactification scale in the multi-TeV range. The Higgs compositness is due mainly to the Kaluza-Klein modes of the gluons, while flavor symmetry breaking may be provided by various fields propagating in the compact dimensions. I comment briefly on the embedding of this scenario in string theory.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9812349v3