Anomalies in Fermionic UV Completions of Little Higgs Models

Mar, 2008
14 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 06 (2008) 092
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We consider fermionic UV completions of little Higgs models and their associated T-parity-violating anomalous vertices. We show that the vacuum state of these models is unlikely to achieve the alignment necessary to realize anomaly-free coset theories. However, we will see that multi-link moose models posses an additional parity resulting in a novel phenomenology with long lived T-odd particles. Finally, we briefly discuss a method for identifying anomalous decays in colliders.
  • little Higgs model
  • T-parity: violation
  • ultraviolet
  • vacuum state: alignment
  • Wess-Zumino term
  • coset space: SO(N) x SO(N)
  • meson: decay modes
  • meson: lifetime
  • anomaly
  • moose