Solving the Hierarchy Problem at Reheating with a Large Number of Degrees of Freedom
Abstract
We present a new solution to the electroweak hierarchy problem. Here we introduce $$N$$ copies of the standard model with varying values of the Higgs mass parameter. This generically yields a sector whose weak scale is parametrically removed from the cutoff by a factor of 1/$$\sqrt{N}$$. Ensuring that reheating deposits a majority of the total energy density into this lightest sector requires a modification of the standard cosmological history, providing a powerful probe of the mechanism. Current and near-future experiments can explore much of the natural parameter space. Furthermore, supersymmetric completions that preserve grand unification predict superpartners with mass below $$m_W \times M_{pl}/M_{GUT} \sim 10 TeV$$.
- Authors:
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1536462
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1336881
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012012; SC0009988; PHY-096951; PHY-106629; 131669; 0426-2014000; 0409-2015011
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 117; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; cosmology; extensions of Higgs sector; hierarchy problem; spontaneous symmetry breaking
Citation Formats
Arkani-Hamed, Nima, Cohen, Timothy, D’Agnolo, Raffaele Tito, Hook, Anson, Kim, Hyung Do, and Pinner, David. Solving the Hierarchy Problem at Reheating with a Large Number of Degrees of Freedom. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.117.251801.
Arkani-Hamed, Nima, Cohen, Timothy, D’Agnolo, Raffaele Tito, Hook, Anson, Kim, Hyung Do, & Pinner, David. Solving the Hierarchy Problem at Reheating with a Large Number of Degrees of Freedom. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.251801
Arkani-Hamed, Nima, Cohen, Timothy, D’Agnolo, Raffaele Tito, Hook, Anson, Kim, Hyung Do, and Pinner, David. Thu .
"Solving the Hierarchy Problem at Reheating with a Large Number of Degrees of Freedom". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.251801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1536462.
@article{osti_1536462,
title = {Solving the Hierarchy Problem at Reheating with a Large Number of Degrees of Freedom},
author = {Arkani-Hamed, Nima and Cohen, Timothy and D’Agnolo, Raffaele Tito and Hook, Anson and Kim, Hyung Do and Pinner, David},
abstractNote = {We present a new solution to the electroweak hierarchy problem. Here we introduce $N$ copies of the standard model with varying values of the Higgs mass parameter. This generically yields a sector whose weak scale is parametrically removed from the cutoff by a factor of 1/$\sqrt{N}$. Ensuring that reheating deposits a majority of the total energy density into this lightest sector requires a modification of the standard cosmological history, providing a powerful probe of the mechanism. Current and near-future experiments can explore much of the natural parameter space. Furthermore, supersymmetric completions that preserve grand unification predict superpartners with mass below $m_W \times M_{pl}/M_{GUT} \sim 10 TeV$.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.117.251801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 25,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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