Electroweak symmetry breaking and collider signatures in the next-to-minimal composite Higgs model

Nov 28, 2016
53 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 04 (2017) 117
  • Published: Apr 20, 2017
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Abstract: (Springer)
We conduct a detailed numerical analysis of the composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Higgs model based on the next-to-minimal coset SO(6)/SO(5) ≅ SU(4)/Sp(4), featuring an additional SM singlet scalar in the spectrum, which we allow to mix with the Higgs boson. We identify regions in parameter space compatible with all current exper-imental constraints, including radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, flavour physics, and direct searches at colliders. We find the additional scalar, with a mass predicted to be below a TeV, to be virtually unconstrained by current LHC data, but potentially in reach of run 2 searches. Promising indirect searches include rare semi-leptonic B decays, CP violation in Bs_{s} mixing, and the electric dipole moment of the neutron.
Note:
  • 32 pages + appendices, 9 figures. v2: minor clarifications, matches the JHEP version
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Technicolor and Composite Models
  • new physics
  • Higgs model: composite
  • Higgs model: parameter space
  • electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
  • symmetry breaking: model
  • scalar particle: new particle
  • scalar particle: mass
  • scalar particle: singlet