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The Composite Higgs Signal at the Next Big Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Gildener-Weinberg (GW) mechanism produces a Higgs boson HH that is a dilaton. That is, HH is both naturally light and naturally aligned. It also predicts additional singly-charged and neutral Higgs bosons all of whose masses are <500GeV< 500\,{\rm GeV} and, therefore, within reach of the LHC now. I argue that the GW Higgs is composite -- a bound state of fermions whose strong interactions are at some high, unknown scale ΛH>1TeV\Lambda_H > 1\,{\rm TeV}. The lone harbingers of HH compositeness, ones that may be accessible at the next multi-TeV collider, are isovector vector ρH\rho_H and axial vector aHa_H bound states whose masses are O(ΛH)\cal{O}(\Lambda_H). They decay into the only fermion-antifermion composites lighter than they are, the Higgs boson and longitudinally-polarized weak bosons: ρH±,0WL±ZL\rho_H^{\pm,0} \to W^\pm_L Z_L, WL+WLW^+_L W^-_L and aH±,0WL±Ha_H^{\pm,0} \to W^\pm_L H, ZLHZ_L H. Observing these resonant, highly-boosted weak-scale bosons would establish their composite nature.

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@article{arxiv.2203.03710,
  title  = {The Composite Higgs Signal at the Next Big Collider},
  author = {Kenneth Lane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03710},
  year   = {2022}
}

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