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On the Tuning and the Mass of the Composite Higgs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-11 v2

Abstract

We analyze quantitatively the tuning of composite Higgs models with partial compositeness and its interplay with the predicted Higgs mass. In this respect we identify three classes of models, characterized by different quantum numbers of the fermionic colored resonances associated with the top quark, the so-called top partners. The main result of this classification is that in all models with moderate tuning a light Higgs, of 125 GeV mass, requires the presence of light top partners, around 1 TeV. The minimal tuning is comparable to the one of the most attractive supersymmetric models in particular the ones realizing Natural SUSY. This gives further support to an extensive program of top partners searches at the LHC that can already probe the natural region of composite Higgs models.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7114,
  title  = {On the Tuning and the Mass of the Composite Higgs},
  author = {Giuliano Panico and Michele Redi and Andrea Tesi and Andrea Wulzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7114},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, 14 figures; v2: version published in JHEP