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A symmetry for $\epsilon_K$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-22 v2

Abstract

We show a symmetry that, in the context of a composite Higgs with anarchic flavor, can suppress the dominant CP violating contributions to KKˉK-\bar K mixing. Based on previous extensions of SU(3)c_c, we consider the case in which the composite sector has a global SU(6) symmetry, spontaneously broken to a subgroup containing SU(3)×\timesSU(3). We show that the interactions with the Standard Model can spontaneously break the remaining symmetry to the diagonal subgroup, identified with the group of color interactions, and naturally suppress ϵK\epsilon_K. We consider this scenario in the context of the Minimal Composite Higgs Model based on SO(5)/SO(4) for the electroweak sector. By working in the framework of 2-site models, we compute the scalar potential, determine the conditions for a successful breaking of the symmetries and calculate the spectrum of lightest states. We find that ϵK\epsilon_K can be suppressed and the top mass reproduced for a large region of the parameter space where the symmetries are dynamically broken. Besides other new resonances, the model predicts the presence of a new singlet scalar state, generally lighter than the Higgs, that could have evaded detection at colliders.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08704,
  title  = {A symmetry for $\epsilon_K$},
  author = {Leandro Da Rold and Iván A. Davidovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08704},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

33 pages, 4 figures, v2: discussion on bounds from dipole moments added, references added

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