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Electroweak symmetry breaking from unparticles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-03-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A new type of scalar potential inspired by unparticles is proposed for the electroweak symmetry breaking. The interaction between the standard model fields and unparticle sector is described by the non-integral power of fields that originates from the nontrivial scaling dimension of the unparticle operator. We find that unlike the usual integral-power potential, the electroweak symmetry is broken at tree level. The scale invariance of unparticle sector is also broken simultaneously, resulting in a physical Higgs and a lighter scalar particle.

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@article{arxiv.0803.0833,
  title  = {Electroweak symmetry breaking from unparticles},
  author = {Jong-Phil Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0833},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures. References updated

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