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The Half-composite Two Higgs Doublet Model and the Relaxion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-06-11 v3

Abstract

We study a new confining gauge theory with fermions in a vectorial representation under the SM gauge group that allows for Yukawa interactions with the Higgs. If the fermion masses are smaller than the confinement scale this realizes a type I two Higgs doublet model where a composite Higgs mixes with the elementary Higgs. This class of models interpolates between an elementary and a composite Higgs and has interesting phenomenology with potentially observables effects in collider physics, EDMs and SM couplings but very weak bounds from indirect searches. The very same framework can be used to realize the cosmological relaxation of the electro-weak scale recently discussed in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01112,
  title  = {The Half-composite Two Higgs Doublet Model and the Relaxion},
  author = {Oleg Antipin and Michele Redi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01112},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages. v2 minor changes; v3 typos fixed

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