Restoring Naturalness via Conjugate Fermions
Abstract
We propose a novel mechanism for cancelling the leading order contribution to the potential in composite Higgs scenarios. The mechanism relies on the splitting of a real representation of the global symmetry into a complex representation and its conjugate of the unbroken group. We identify two cosets one of which includes a custodial symmetry. A numerical analysis is performed in a phenomenological three-site model and the resulting fine-tuning is analysed. The cancelling of the leading order potential results in a drastic reduction of the fine-tuning. For a symmetry breaking scale of the strong sector as high as GeV, fine-tuning can be as good as or even better. We discuss a possible interpretation in the 5D holographic dual. Unique signatures of the model include quarks with baryon number with highly distinctive decays which can be looked for at the LHC.
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@article{arxiv.2309.05698,
title = {Restoring Naturalness via Conjugate Fermions},
author = {Andrei Angelescu and Andreas Bally and Florian Goertz and Maya Hager},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05698},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures, matches published version