The unnatural composite Higgs
Abstract
Composite Higgs models can trivially satisfy precision-electroweak and flavour constraints by simply having a large spontaneous symmetry breaking scale, f ≳ 10 TeV. This produces a ‘split’ spectrum, where the strong sector resonances have masses greater than 10 TeV and are separated from the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons, which remain near the electroweak scale. Even though a tuning of order 10–4 is required to obtain the observed Higgs boson mass, the big hierarchy problem remains mostly solved. Intriguingly, models with a fully-composite right-handed top quark also exhibit improved gauge coupling unification. By restricting ourselves to models which preserve these features we find that the symmetry breaking scale cannot be arbitrarily raised, leading to an upper bound f ≲ 100-1000 TeV. This implies that the resonances may be accessible at future colliders, or indirectly via rare-decay experiments. Dark matter is identified with a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, and we show that the smallest coset space containing a stable, scalar singlet and an unbroken SU(5) symmetry is SU(7)/SU(6) × U(1). The colour-triplet pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson also contained in this coset space is metastable due to a residual symmetry. Furthermore, it can decay via a displaced vertex when produced at colliders, leading to a distinctivemore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia). ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). School of Physics and Astronomy
- Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (India). Dept. of Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1454605
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011842
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; GUT; Technicolor and Composite Models; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
Citation Formats
Barnard, James, Gherghetta, Tony, Ray, Tirtha Sankar, and Spray, Andrew. The unnatural composite Higgs. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2015)067.
Barnard, James, Gherghetta, Tony, Ray, Tirtha Sankar, & Spray, Andrew. The unnatural composite Higgs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)067
Barnard, James, Gherghetta, Tony, Ray, Tirtha Sankar, and Spray, Andrew. 2015.
"The unnatural composite Higgs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)067. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1454605.
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abstractNote = {Composite Higgs models can trivially satisfy precision-electroweak and flavour constraints by simply having a large spontaneous symmetry breaking scale, f ≳ 10 TeV. This produces a ‘split’ spectrum, where the strong sector resonances have masses greater than 10 TeV and are separated from the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons, which remain near the electroweak scale. Even though a tuning of order 10–4 is required to obtain the observed Higgs boson mass, the big hierarchy problem remains mostly solved. Intriguingly, models with a fully-composite right-handed top quark also exhibit improved gauge coupling unification. By restricting ourselves to models which preserve these features we find that the symmetry breaking scale cannot be arbitrarily raised, leading to an upper bound f ≲ 100-1000 TeV. This implies that the resonances may be accessible at future colliders, or indirectly via rare-decay experiments. Dark matter is identified with a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, and we show that the smallest coset space containing a stable, scalar singlet and an unbroken SU(5) symmetry is SU(7)/SU(6) × U(1). The colour-triplet pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson also contained in this coset space is metastable due to a residual symmetry. Furthermore, it can decay via a displaced vertex when produced at colliders, leading to a distinctive signal of unnaturalness.},
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