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Naturalness without new particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that the physics which resolves naturalness problems need not take the form of new particles and can sometimes manifest itself as higher dimensional operators. As a proof of principle, we present a simple model where the scale of new particles is parametrically separated from that estimated via naturalness arguments applied to self-quartic couplings. In this example, new particles appear far above the scale m/λm/\sqrt{\lambda}, where mm is the mass of the particle and λ\lambda is its self-quartic coupling. The shift symmetry responsible for resolving the naturalness problem involves higher dimensional operators rather than new particles.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06758,
  title  = {Naturalness without new particles},
  author = {Anson Hook},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06758},
  year   = {2019}
}

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