Unparticle and Higgs boson as composites
Creators
- 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.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.015016;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0810.2686v1;
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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41005337
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONDENSATES; COUPLING; FERMIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HADRONS; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; MIXING; SCALE INVARIANCE; WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2009 The American Physical Society