Nnaturalness
Abstract
We present a new solution to the electroweak hierarchy problem. We introduce copies of the Standard Model with varying values of the Higgs mass parameter. This generically yields a sector whose weak scale is parametrically removed from the cutoff by a factor of . Ensuring that reheating deposits a majority of the total energy density into this lightest sector requires a modification of the standard cosmological history, providing a powerful probe of the mechanism. Current and near-future experiments will explore much of the natural parameter space. Furthermore, supersymmetric completions which preserve grand unification predict superpartners with mass below TeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1607.06821,
title = {Nnaturalness},
author = {Nima Arkani-Hamed and Timothy Cohen and Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo and Anson Hook and Hyung Do Kim and David Pinner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06821},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
v2: journal version published in PRL as Solving the Hierarchy Problem at Reheating with a Large Number of Degrees of Freedom (14 pages, 5 figures)