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Partial compositeness and baryon matrix elements on the lattice

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-05-29 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Partial compositeness is a mechanism for the generation of fermion masses which replaces a direct Higgs coupling to the fermions by a linear mixing with heavy composite partners. We present the first calculation of the relevant matrix element in a lattice model which is very close to a candidate theory containing a composite Higgs boson and a partially composite top quark. Specifically, our model is an SU(4) gauge theory coupled to dynamical fermions in the fundamental and two-index antisymmetric (sextet) representations. The matrix element we obtain is small and hence our result disfavors the scenario of obtaining a realistic top mass in this model.

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@article{arxiv.1812.02727,
  title  = {Partial compositeness and baryon matrix elements on the lattice},
  author = {Venkitesh Ayyar and Thomas DeGrand and Daniel C. Hackett and William I. Jay and Ethan T. Neil and Yigal Shamir and Benjamin Svetitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02727},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Updated title and version accepted for publication in PRD

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