Invisible Higgs boson, continuous mass fields, and unparticle Higgs mechanism
- 1. Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Catholic University of Louvain, 2 Chemin du Cyclotron, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
- 2. Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 (United States)
- 3. Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (China)
Description
We explore the consequences of an electroweak symmetry breaking sector which exhibits approximately scale invariant dynamics, i.e., nontrivial fixed point behavior, as in unparticle models. One can think of an unparticle Higgs as a composite Higgs boson with a continuous mass distribution. We find it convenient to represent the unparticle Higgs in terms of a Kaellen-Lehmann spectral function, from which it is simple to verify the generation of gauge boson and fermion masses, and unitarization of WW scattering. We show that a spectral function with broad support, which corresponds to approximate fixed point behavior over an extended range of energy, can lead to an effectively invisible Higgs particle, whose decays at CERN LEP or LHC could be obscured by background.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.055021;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0810.2155v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 79
- Journal Issue
- 5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 055021-055021.5
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41010950
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN LHC; FERMIONS; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; LEP STORAGE RINGS; MASS; MASS DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE DECAY; SCATTERING; SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DECAY; DISTRIBUTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
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- Notes
- (c) 2009 The American Physical Society