``Topcolor''; Invited talk presented at "Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories, 1996", Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 1996

TL;DR

This paper reviews dynamical models where top quark condensation at the weak scale explains its large mass, involving color embedding and predicting experimental signatures for collider and fixed target experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a class of models with top condensation and color embedding, highlighting their phenomenological implications and experimental signatures.

Findings

Top condensation models can account for the large top quark mass.

Color embedding leads to distinctive collider signatures.

Models predict observable phenomena in near-term experiments.

Abstract

We review a class of dynamical models in which top condensation occurs at the weak scale, giving rise to the large top quark mass and other phenomena. This typically requires a color embedding, $SU(3)_c \rightarrow SU(3)_1\times SU(3)_2$. These models imply many signatures addressable in near term experiments at colliders and in fixed target mode.