Top-quark condensation, in particular the minimal framework in which the neutral Higgs
scalar is (predominantly) an effective tt condensate of the standard model, is reviewed …

We study Higgs condensation H∼ ttin the top-mode standard model at the next-to-leading
(NTL) order in 1/Ncby calculating the effective potential as a function of a hard mass …

Several extensions of the Standard Model require the burden of electroweak symmetry
breaking to be shared by multiple states or sectors. This leads to the possibility of the top …

The top quark may get its large mass not from a fundamental scalar but a Nambu–Jona-
Lasinio mechanism involving a strongly coupled gauge sector that triggers top-quark …

With this thesis the author contributes to the development of a non-mainstream but long-
standing approach to electroweak symmetry breaking based on an analogy with …

We study the Higgs condensation H=〈 tt〉 mechanism in the Top-mode Standard Model at
the next-to-leading order in 1 N c. The calculation includes the effects of the Goldstone …

We present a new method solving Schwinger-Dyson equations in gauge theories via
imaginary part analysis. The self-consistency equation for the fermion self-energy can be …

We study the properties of heavy fermions in the vector-like representation of the electro-
weak gauge group SU (2) W× U (1) Y with Yukawa couplings to the standard model Higgs …

The predictive power of top quark condensation models strongly depends on the behavior of
higher dimensional operators. These are analyzed in this paper by an extension of the …

We study the Higgs condensation H= h tti mechanism in the Top-mode Standard Model at
the next-to-leading order in 1= Nc. The calculation includes the e ects of the Goldstone elds …