The Unhiggs
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-03-19 v2
Abstract
We examine a scenario where the Higgs is part of an approximate conformal field theory, and has a scaling dimension greater than one. Such an unparticle Higgs (or Unhiggs) can still break electroweak symmetry and unitarize WW scattering, but its gauge couplings are suppressed. An Unhiggs model has a reduced sensitivity of the weak scale to the cutoff, and can thus provide a solution to the little hierarchy problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.3961,
title = {The Unhiggs},
author = {David Stancato and John Terning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3961},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
21 pages, 9 figures; v2: further discussion, references added, version published in JHEP