A Composite Theory of Higgs and Flavour
Abstract
We introduce a composite Higgs model in which a flavour deconstructed gauge group is embedded in the strong sector. The pattern of global symmetry breaking yields, as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNGB) bosons, both a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs and the link field whose vacuum expectation value breaks the flavour non-universal gauge group down to the SM. Inevitably, a third pNGB appears, transforming as a second Higgs doublet coupled only to the light generations. This heavy Higgs naturally mediates suppressed light Yukawa couplings, providing a solution to the flavour puzzle. At the same time, new physics contributions to flavour violating observables are CKM- and chirally suppressed, while electric dipole moment bounds are evaded through an automatic mass alignment in the light fermion sector. The result is a natural framework for addressing the origin of both Higgs and flavour hierarchies, with reduced Higgs mass tuning and minimised impact in flavour observables, that is best tested by high- and precision electroweak measurements.
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@article{arxiv.2512.19650,
title = {A Composite Theory of Higgs and Flavour},
author = {Joe Davighi and Gino Isidori},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.19650},
year = {2025}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures