Electroweak Symmetry Breaking From Monopole Condensation

Understand

We examine models where massless chiral fermions with both "electric" and "magnetic" hypercharges could form condensates.

• When some of the fermions are also electroweak doublets such condensates can break the electroweak gauge symmetry down to electromagnetism in the correct way.
• Since ordinary hypercharge is weakly coupled at the TeV scale, magnetic hypercharge is strongly coupled and can potentially drive the condensation.
• Such models are similar to technicolor, but with hypercharge playing the role of the technicolor gauge group, so the standard model gauge group breaks itself.