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Deconstructing Dimensional Deconstruction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Dimensional deconstruction (DD) abstracts from higher dimensional models features of related 4--dimensional ones. DD was proposed in Refs.[1,2,3] as a scheme for constructing models of {\it naturally} light composite Higgs boson. These are models in which--{\it without fine--tuning of parameters}--the composite Higgs's mass M and vacuum expectation value v are much lighter than its binding energy scale \Lambda. We review the basic idea of DD. It is easy to arrange M << \Lambda. We show, however, that DD fails to give v << \Lambda in a model that is supposed to contain a naturally light composite Higgs [4].

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210240,
  title  = {Deconstructing Dimensional Deconstruction},
  author = {Kenneth Lane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210240},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, LaTex, with two eps figures, uses espcrc2.sty. Talk at The 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 24--31, 2002