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 superconductivity. Electroweak
symmetry breaking is assumed to be caused by dynamically generated
masses of typical fermions, i.e., of quarks and leptons, which in
turn assumes a new dynamics between quarks and leptons. Primarily
it is designed to generate fermion masses and electroweak symmetry
breaking is an automatic consequence.
After the summary of the topic, the first main part of the
thesis addresses the question as to whether the masses of known
quarks and leptons provide sufficiently strong sources of
electroweak symmetry breaking. It is demonstrated that neutrino
masses subject tothe seesaw mechanism are indispensable
ingredients. The other two parts of the thesis are dedicated to the
presentation of two particular models: The first model is based on
the new strong Yukawa dynamics and serves as a platform for
studying the ability to reproduce fermion masses. The second, more
realistic model introduces a flavor gauge dynamics and its
phenomenological consequences are studied.
Even though, in the past, this type of models has already been
of some interest, following the discovery of the
Standard-Model-like Higgs particle, it is regaining its
relevance."
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