Abstract

There is reason to believe that massive composite (fermion-antifermion) scalar particles closely resembling the usual fundamental scalar Higgs fields exist in theories with dynamically broken gauge symmetries. This composite Higgs couples directly to the fermions in proportion to their symmetry-violating self-energies. Induced couplings to the gauge bosons and self-couplings are calculated as loop effects. This involves deriving the effective action in terms of the full propagators and background fields. The couplings between the composite Higgs and the gauge bosons are the same as those in models with fundamental scalars. The self-couplings are determined and fix all parameters associated with the composite scalars. Comments regarding extending this work to higher orders and concerning the symmetry-violating solutions to the fermion Schwinger-Dyson equation are given.

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