RT Journal Article T1 On electroweak symmetry breaking in the littlest Higgs model A1 Dobado González, Antonio A1 Tabares Cheluci, Lourdes A1 Peñaranda, Siannah AB In SU(5)/SO(5) little Higgs models radiative corrections give rise to SU(2)(L)xU(1)(Y) symmetry breaking. In this work we start a program for a detailed determination of the relevant terms of the effective Higgs potential by computing the contribution of the t, b and T quarks at the one-loop level, as a starting point for a higher-loop computation. In spite of the fact that some two-loop level contributions are well known to be important, we use our preliminary one-loop result to illustrate that, by demanding the effective potential to reproduce exactly the standard model Higgs potential, and in particular the relation m(H)(2)=2 lambda v(2)=2 mu(2), it will be possible to set new constraints on the parameter space of the littlest Higgs model when the computation of all the relevant contributions to the effective Higgs potential is completed. PB Springer SN 1434-6044 YR 2007 FD 2007-04 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50714 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50714 LA eng NO © EPJ, Springer Verlag, Societá Italiana di Fisica.This work is supported by DGICYT (Spain) under project number BPA2005-02327. The work ofS.P. has been partially supported by the European Union under contract No. MEIF-CT-2003-500030. L.T. would like to thank Javier Almeida Linares (UCM, Spain) and Javier Rodriguez Laguna (SISSA, Italy) for their valuable guidance to C++ programming. NO DGICYT (Spain) NO European Union DS Docta Complutense RD 4 abr 2025