The Unhiggs

Jul, 2008
19 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 11 (2009) 101
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We examine a scenario where the Higgs is part of an approximate conformal field theory, and has a scaling dimension greater than one. Such an unparticle Higgs (or Unhiggs) can still break electroweak symmetry and unitarize WW scattering, but its gauge couplings are suppressed. An Unhiggs model has a reduced sensitivity of the weak scale to the cutoff, and can thus provide a solution to the little hierarchy problem.
  • scaling: dimension
  • field theory: conformal
  • Higgs particle: unparticle
  • coupling: gauge
  • electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
  • W W: scattering amplitude
  • unitarity
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • coupling: Yukawa
  • effective Lagrangian: induced