A Pedagogical Review of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios

Understand

We review different avenues of electroweak symmetry breaking explored over the years.

• This constitutes a timely exercise as the world's largest and the highest energy particle accelerator, namely, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has started running whose primary mission is to find the Higgs or some phenomena that mimic the effects of the Higgs, i.e.
• to unravel the mysteries of electroweak phase transition.
• In the beginning, we discuss the Standard Model Higgs mechanism.