Extra dimensions as an alternative to Higgs mechanism?

Abstract

We show that a pure gauge theory in higher dimensions may lead to an effective lower-dimensional theory with massive vector field, broken gauge symmetry and no fundamental Higgs boson. The mechanism we propose employs the localization of a vector field on a lower-dimensional defect. No non-zero expectation values of the vector field components along extra dimensions are required. New possibilities for the solution to the gauge hierarchy problem are discussed.

Latex, 7 pages, 1 fig. Few references added. Final version to appear in Phys.Lett.B

References in corpus (9)

• An Alternative to Compactification
• Supersymmetry and Quantum Mechanics
• Localization of Matter and Cosmological Constant on a Brane in Anti de Sitter Space
• Localizing Gravity on a String-Like Defect in Six Dimensions
• Localization of Matters on a String-like Defect
• (Quasi)Localized Gauge Field on a Brane: Dissipating Cosmic Radiation to Extra Dimensions?
• A Note on Warped String Compactification
• Is the electric charge conserved in brane world?
• On some new warped brane world solutions in higher dimensions

Cited by in corpus (26)

• Fermions on an Interval: Quark and Lepton Masses without a Higgs
• The Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Theories with Large Extra Dimensions
• Fermion masses and quantum numbers from extra dimensions
• Gauge field localization on Abelian vortices in six dimensions
• Scalar normal modes of higher dimensional gravitating kinks
• Tunneling into Extra Dimension and High-Energy Violation of Lorentz Invariance
• Effective gauge theories on domain walls via bulk confinement?
• Supersymmetry in gauge theories with extra dimensions
• "An effective two dimensionality" cases bring a new hope to the Kaluza-Klein[like] theories
• Localisation and mass generation for non-Abelian gauge fields
• Chiral Asymmetry from a 5D Higgs Mechanism
• Extended supersymmetry and its reduction on a circle with point singularities
• Brane-worlds and theta-vacua
• Vector field localization and negative tension branes
• On unremovable divergencies in four-dimensional electrodynamics localized on a domain wall
• Anomalies as a signature of extra dimensions
• Layered Higgs Phase as a Possible Field Localisation on a Brane
• Observational manifestations of anomaly inflow
• How does Clifford algebra show the way to the second quantized fermions with unified spins, charges and families, and with vector and scalar gauge fields beyond the {\it standard model}
• Gauge Theories on an Interval: Unitarity without a Higgs
• Brane Gravity from Bulk Vector Field
• Active Dirac Neutrinos via $SU(2{)}_L$ Doublets in 5d
• More on divergences in brane world models
• How Clifford algebra helps understand second quantized quarks and leptons and corresponding vector and scalar boson fields, {\it opening a new step beyond the standard model}
• Cosmological baryon/lepton asymmetry in terms of Kaluza-Klein extra dimensions
• IR properties of one loop corrections to brane-to-brane propagators in models with localized vector bosons