The accidental Higgs
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-07-14 v3
Abstract
We suggest that the Higgs is a light composite state that does not emerge from TeV scale strong dynamics for any generic reason, such as when it is pseudo-Goldstone boson. Instead, a state that is Higgs-like and fairly decoupled from heavier states may simply be a reflection of very particular strong dynamics, with properties quite distinct from more familiar large- type gauge dynamics. We elaborate on this picture in the context of a strongly interacting fourth family and an effective 4-Higgs-doublet model. The origin of a decoupling limit and the corrections to it are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.6229,
title = {The accidental Higgs},
author = {B. Holdom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6229},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figures, published version