title: Electroweak symmetry breaking from monopole condensation.
abstract: We argue that the electroweak symmetry of the standard model (SM) could be broken via condensation of magnetic monopole bilinears. We present an extension of the SM where this could indeed happen, and where the heavy top mass is also a consequence of the magnetic interactions.
authors.affiliation: Institute for High Energy Phenomenology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. csaki@cornell.edu
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Csáki
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shirman
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Terning