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Gegenbauer's Twin

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-05-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In Twin Higgs models the dominant source of fine-tuning is the cancellation of order v2/f2v^2/f^2 required to obtain a Standard Model-like Higgs, where vv and ff are the electroweak and new physics scales, respectively. Recently proposed Gegenbauer Goldstone models naturally realise v2/f21v^2/f^2 \ll 1 and hence remove this source of fine-tuning. By combining the two into `Gegenbauer's Twin', we obtain a symmetry-based model for Higgs sector naturalness consistent with current collider measurements without fine-tuning of parameters. Single-Higgs coupling deviations of a few percent and trilinear self-coupling deviations of order one are irreducible in the natural parameter space. Thus, notably, the fingerprints of Gegenbauer's Twin could emerge first through di-Higgs measurements at the High-Luminosity LHC.

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@article{arxiv.2202.01228,
  title  = {Gegenbauer's Twin},
  author = {Gauthier Durieux and Matthew McCullough and Ennio Salvioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.01228},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes and added Figure 1, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:16:28.793Z