Minimal Flavor Constraints for Technicolor

Preprint number: CP3-Origins-2009-8
Authors: Hidenori S. Fukano (CP3-Origins) and Francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins)
External link: arXiv.org

We analyze the constraints on the the vacuum polarization of the standard model gauge bosons from a minimal set of flavor observables valid for a general class of models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. We will show that the constraints have a strong impact on the self-coupling and masses of the lightest spin-one resonances. Our analysis is applicable to any four and higher dimensional extension of the standard model reducing to models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking.