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Direct and indirect signals of natural composite Higgs models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-17 v3

Abstract

We present a comprehensive numerical analysis of a four-dimensional model with the Higgs as a composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson that features a calculable Higgs potential and protective custodial and flavour symmetries to reduce electroweak fine-tuning. We employ a novel numerical technique that allows us for the first time to study constraints from radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, Higgs physics, electroweak precision tests, flavour physics, and direct LHC bounds on fermion and vector boson resonances in a single framework. We consider four different flavour symmetries in the composite sector, one of which we show to not be viable anymore in view of strong precision constraints. In the other cases, all constraints can be passed with a sub-percent electroweak fine-tuning. The models can explain the excesses recently observed in WWWW, WZWZ, WhWh and +\ell^+\ell^- resonance searches by ATLAS and CMS and the anomalies in angular observables and branching ratios of rare semi-leptonic BB decays observed by LHCb. Solving the BB physics anomalies predicts the presence of a dijet or ttˉt\bar t resonance around 1 TeV just below the sensitivity of LHC run 1. We discuss the prospects to probe the models at run 2 of the LHC. As a side product, we identify several gaps in the searches for vector-like quarks at hadron colliders, that could be closed by reanalyzing existing LHC data.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00569,
  title  = {Direct and indirect signals of natural composite Higgs models},
  author = {Christoph Niehoff and Peter Stangl and David M. Straub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00569},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

74 pages, 21 figures. v2: references added, discussion in 3.2.6 extended