Electroweak theory without Higgs bosons

A perturbative SU(2)(L) x U(1)(Y) electroweak theory containing W, Z, photon, ghost, lepton and quark fields, but no Higgs or other fields, gives masses to W, Z and the nonneutrino fermions by means of an unconventional choice for the unperturbed Lagrangian and a novel method of renormalization. The renormalization extends to all orders. The masses emerge on renormalization to one loop. To one loop the neutrinos are massless, the A <-> Z transition drops out of the theory, the d quark is unstable and S matrix elements are independent of the gauge parameter xi.