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Flavor Constraints on Theory Space

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

Composite Higgs models based on the chiral symmetries of ``theory space'' can produce Higgs bosons with masses of order 100 GeV from underlying strong dynamics at scales up to 10 TeV without fine tuning. This talk argues that flavor-violating interactions generically arising from underlying flavor dynamics constrain the Higgs compositeness scale to be at least 75 GeV, implying that significant fine-tuning is required. Bounds from CP violation and weak isospin violation are also discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0304021,
  title  = {Flavor Constraints on Theory Space},
  author = {E. H. Simmons and R. S. Chivukula and N. Evans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0304021},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

7 pages, talk given at SCGT02

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