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A Not So Little Higgs?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

Most recent models assuming the Higgs Boson is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Boson (p NGb) are motivated by the indication from Standard Model fits that its mass is < 200GeV.Starting from a modified SM of Forshaw et. al. with a triplet boson added and a heavier Higgs Boson, we consider a pNGb model. This differs in several wa ys from most little Higgs models: apart from using only one loop, the cutoff sca le is reduced to 5 TeV, and consequently a linear sigma model is used to allevia te FCNC effects; no new vector bosons are required, but vector-like isosinglet f ermions are needed, but play no part in determining the mass of the Higgs Boson. The phenomenology of the isosinglet pNGb that arises from the SU(3)xSU(3)->SU(3) model we use is briefly discussed. Some potential theoretical and phenomenolog ical problems arementioned briefly.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411115,
  title  = {A Not So Little Higgs?},
  author = {David G. Sutherland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411115},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, some clarifying remarks added and improved discussion of mass estimates given

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