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Monte Carlo Exploration of Warped Higgsless Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We have performed a detailed Monte Carlo exploration of the parameter space for a warped Higgsless model of electroweak symmetry breaking in 5 dimensions. This model is based on the SU(2)L×SU(2)R×U(1)BLSU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L} gauge group in an AdS5_5 bulk with arbitrary gauge kinetic terms on both the Planck and TeV branes. Constraints arising from precision electroweak measurements and collider data are found to be relatively easy to satisfy. We show, however, that the additional requirement of perturbative unitarity up to the cut-off, 10\simeq 10 TeV, in WL+WLW_L^+W_L^- elastic scattering in the absence of dangerous tachyons eliminates all models. If successful models of this class exist, they must be highly fine-tuned.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0407059,
  title  = {Monte Carlo Exploration of Warped Higgsless Models},
  author = {J. L. Hewett and B. Lillie and T. G. Rizzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0407059},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

26 pages, 7 figures; new fig and additional text added