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Introducing the Little Higgs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

Little Higgs theories are an exciting new possibility for physics at TeV energies. In the Standard Model the Higgs mass suffers from an instability under radiative corrections. This ``hierarchy problem'' motivates much of current physics beyond the Standard Model research. Little Higgs theories offer a new and very promising solution to this problem in which the Higgs is naturally light as a result of non-linearly realized symmetries. This article reviews some of the underlying ideas and gives a pedagogical introduction to the Little Higgs. The examples provided are taken from the paper "A Little Higgs from a Simple Group", by D.E. Kaplan and M. Schmaltz.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210415,
  title  = {Introducing the Little Higgs},
  author = {Martin Schmaltz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210415},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 10 figs, Plenary talk "Physics Beyond the Standard Model (Theory)" at The 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 24--31, 2002

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