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Gravitational relaxation of electroweak hierarchy problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-07 v5 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the present paper, we discuss gravitational relaxation models for the electroweak hierarchy problem. We show that modified gravity can naturally relax the electroweak hierarchy problem where conformal transformation provides a crucial rule about what modified gravity theories are favored to relax the electroweak hierarchy. The conformal transformation connects different gravitational theories and rescaling the metric changes the dimensional parameters like the Higgs mass or the cosmological constant in different frames drastically. When the electroweak scale is naturally realized by dynamical and running behavior of dilatonic scalar field or scaling parameter, the modified gravity theories can relax the electroweak hierarchy problem. We discuss the theoretical and phenomenological validity of the gravitational relaxation models.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08838,
  title  = {Gravitational relaxation of electroweak hierarchy problem},
  author = {Hiroki Matsui and Yoshio Matsumoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08838},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages, final published version

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