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The Little Higgs from a Simple Group

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We present a model of electroweak symmetry breaking in which the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. By embedding the standard model SU(2) x U(1) into an SU(4) x U(1) gauge group, one-loop quadratic divergences to the Higgs mass from gauge and top loops are canceled automatically with the minimal particle content. The potential contains a Higgs quartic coupling which does not introduce one-loop quadratic divergences. Our theory is weakly coupled at the electroweak scale, it has new weakly coupled particles at the TeV scale and a cutoff above 10 TeV, all without fine tuning. We discuss the spectrum of the model and estimate the constraints from electroweak precision measurements.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0302049,
  title  = {The Little Higgs from a Simple Group},
  author = {David E. Kaplan and Martin Schmaltz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0302049},
  year   = {2009}
}

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29 pages, referencing error corrected after death threats, dude removed

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