Third-family quark-lepton unification with a fundamental composite Higgs

Apr 23, 2020
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 811 (2020) 135953
  • Published: Dec 10, 2020
e-Print:
Report number:
  • ZU-TH-08/20,
  • LAPTH-014/20

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present a model for third-family quark-lepton unification at the TeV scale featuring a composite Higgs sector. The model is based on a variant of the Pati-Salam model, the so-called 4321 model, consisting of the gauge group SU(4)×SU(3)′×SU(2)L×U(1)X . The spontaneous symmetry breaking to the SM gauge group is triggered dynamically by a QCD-like confining sector. The same strong dynamics also produces the Higgs as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, connecting the energy scales of both sectors. The model predicts a massive U1 vector leptoquark coupled dominantly to the third generation, recently put forward as a possible solution to the B -meson anomalies.
Note:
  • 14 pages, 2 figures. v2: matching the journal version
  • leptoquark: coupling
  • family: 3
  • Higgs model: composite
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • Pati-Salam model
  • confinement
  • grand unified theory
  • SU(4) x SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)