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Baryon spectrum of SU(4) composite Higgs theory with two distinct fermion representations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-06-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We use lattice simulations to compute the baryon spectrum of SU(4) lattice gauge theory coupled to dynamical fermions in the fundamental and two-index antisymmetric (sextet) representations simultaneously. This model is closely related to a composite Higgs model in which the chimera baryon made up of fermions from both representations plays the role of a composite top-quark partner. The dependence of the baryon masses on each underlying fermion mass is found to be generally consistent with a quark-model description and large-Nc scaling. We combine our numerical results with experimental bounds on the scale of the new strong sector to derive a lower bound on the mass of the top partner.

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@article{arxiv.1801.05809,
  title  = {Baryon spectrum of SU(4) composite Higgs theory with two distinct fermion representations},
  author = {Venkitesh Ayyar and Thomas DeGrand and Daniel C. Hackett and William I. Jay and Ethan T. Neil and Yigal Shamir and Benjamin Svetitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05809},
  year   = {2018}
}

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23 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables