Published January 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Unparticle and Higgs boson as composites

  • 1. HEP Center, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M (Denmark)
  • 2. IPPP, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)
  • 3. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)

Description

We propose a generic framework in which the Higgs and the unparticle are both composite. The underlying theories are four-dimensional, asymptotically-free, nonsupersymmetric gauge theories with fermionic matter. We sketch a possible unification of these two sectors at a much higher scale resembling extended technicolor models. By construction our extensions are natural, meaning that there is no hierarchy problem. The coupling of the unparticle sector to the composite Higgs emerges as a four-Fermi operator. The bilinear unparticle operator near the electroweak scale has scaling dimension in the range 1<dU<3. We investigate, in various ways, the breaking of scale invariance induced by the electroweak scale resulting in an unparticle condensate. The latter acts as a natural infrared cutoff or hadronic scale. We give the low-energy effective theory valid near the electroweak scale. The unparticle-Higgs mixing is found to be suppressed within our framework.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 015016-015016.14
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2009 The American Physical Society