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Progress on pseudoscalar flavour-singlets in Sp(4) with mixed fermion representations

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2024-10-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We measure the masses of the pseudoscalar flavour-singlet meson states in the Sp(4)Sp(4) gauge theory coupled to two Dirac fermions transforming in the fundamental representation and three Dirac fermions in the antisymmetric representation. This theory provides a compelling ultraviolet completion for the minimal composite Higgs model implementing also partial compositeness for the top quark. The spectrum contains two, comparatively light, pseudoscalar flavour-singlet states, which mix with one another. One of them is a Nambu-Goldstone boson (in the massless limit), whereas the other receives a mass from the U(1)AU(1)_A axial anomaly. We demonstrate how to measure the mixing between these two states. For moderately heavy fermion masses, we find that the two wave functions are dominated by one of the fermion representations, mixing effects being small.

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@article{arxiv.2410.11412,
  title  = {Progress on pseudoscalar flavour-singlets in Sp(4) with mixed fermion representations},
  author = {Fabian Zierler and Ed Bennett and Niccolò Forzano and Deog Ki Hong and Ho Hsiao and Jong-Wan Lee and C. -J. David Lin and Biagio Lucini and Maurizio Piai and Davide Vadacchino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11412},
  year   = {2024}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2024), July 28th - August 3rd, 2024, University of Liverpool, UK

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