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A core ingredient of the standard model of particle physics is electroweak symmetry breaking, the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak field via the Higgs mechanism.
Surveys include
S. Dawson, Introduction to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Lectures given at the 1998 Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology, Trieste, Italy, June 29-uly 17, 1998 (arXiv:hepph/9901280)
Gautam Bhattacharyya, A Pedagogical Review of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Scenarios, Rept. Prog. Phys. 74:026201, 2011 (arXiv:0910.5095)
Brambilla et al., Section 9.2. of: QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories - challenges and perspectives, Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2014; 74(10): 2981 (arXiv:1404.3723, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2981-5)
(in the context of holographic QCD)
Antonio Pich, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Boson, Acta Phys. Pol. B 47, 151 (2016) (arXiv:1512.08749)
See also
Discussion of electroweak symmetry breaking by effective field theory and in analogy to chiral perturbation theory of quantum hadrodynamics:
A. Dobado, J. R. Pelaez, On the Equivalence Theorem in the Description of the Symmetry Breaking Sector of the Standard Model, Nucl. Phys. B425:110-136, 1994; ERRATUM-ibid. B434:475, 1995 (arXiv:hep-ph/9401202)
Gino Isidori, Effective theories of electroweak symmetry breaking, PoS CD09:073, 2009 (arXiv:0911.3219)
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