Tadpole-Induced Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and pNGB Higgs Models

Mar 11, 2016
21 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 03 (2017) 111
  • Published: Mar 22, 2017
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-16-076-T

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Abstract: (Springer)
We investigate induced electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in models in which the Higgs is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB). In pNGB Higgs models, Higgs properties and precision electroweak measurements imply a hierarchy between the EWSB and global symmetry-breaking scales, vH_{H} ≪ fH_{H} . When the pNGB potential is generated radiatively, this hierarchy requires fine-tuning to a degree of at least ∼ vh2_{h}^{2} /fH2_{H}^{2} . We show that if Higgs EWSB is induced by a tadpole arising from an auxiliary sector at scale fΣ_{Σ} ≪ vH_{H} , this tuning is significantly ameliorated or can even be removed. We present explicit examples both in Composite Higgs models based on SO(5)/SO(4) and in Twin Higgs models. For the Twin case, the result is a fully natural model with fH_{H} ∼ 1 TeV and the lightest colored top partners at 2 TeV. These models also have an appealing mechanism to generate the scales of the auxiliary sector and Higgs EWSB directly from the scale fH_{H} , with a natural hierarchy fΣ_{Σ} ≪ vH_{H} ≪ fH_{H} ∼ TeV. The framework predicts modified Higgs coupling as well as new Higgs and vector states at LHC13.
Note:
  • 21 pages, 5 figures
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Higgs Physics
  • Technicolor and Composite Models
  • new physics
  • naturalness
  • electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
  • twin Higgs model
  • Higgs model: composite
  • SO(5)/SO(4)
  • Higgs particle: Goldstone particle