a heavy higgs boson from flavor and electroweak symmetry unification
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A heavy Higgs boson from flavor and electroweak symmetry unification. Little Higgs meets little flavon. Boston, August 2004. Waiting for the LHC. Can we guess the mass of the Higgs? Is it light ( < 200 GeV ) or heavy ( > 200 GeV )? Precision measurements (and SUSY) say it is light - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A heavy Higgs boson from flavor and electroweak symmetry unification
A heavy Higgs boson from flavor and electroweak symmetry unification
Boston, August 2004Boston, August 2004
Little Higgs meets little flavon
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Waiting for the LHCWaiting for the LHC
• Can we guess the mass of the Higgs?
• Is it light (< 200 GeV) or heavy (> 200 GeV)?
• Precision measurements (and SUSY) say it is
light
• Is there any prediction for a heavy mass?
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What is natural (and stable)What is natural (and stable)
• Dirac: dimensionless parameters should be of order one
•‘t Hooft: dimensionful parameters should be of the order
of the largest scale in the problem, unless a symmetry
arises in the limit of the coupling going to zero
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The little hierarchy problemThe little hierarchy problem
• Naturalness in the SM seems to demand new
physics at or around 1 TeV
• Precision measurements do not show any
departure from standard physics up to 10 TeV
How to use this little hierarchy problem to guess new physics?
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Higgs as a pseudo-Goldstone bosonHiggs as a pseudo-Goldstone boson
SU(3) SU(2)
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Problem: Goldstone bosons are exactly massless
Explicit breaking of SU(3) to make them into pseudo
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L = L0 + ε1L1
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ε1But is not small in the SM:
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The little-Higgs mechanism: an example [Schmaltz, hep-ph/0210415]
The little-Higgs mechanism: an example [Schmaltz, hep-ph/0210415]
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L = L0 + ε1L1 + ε2L2
collective symmetry breaking:
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Bringing flavor into the gameBringing flavor into the game
• Horizontal flavor symmetry
• Heavy scalar fields, the flavons
• Spontaneous breaking
• Hierarchy in VEV’s explains that in mass
matrices
• Stability (usually problematic to keep v/f<1)
Froggart-Nielsen mechanism
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RequestsRequests
• Unified electroweak and flavor symmetry• Dynamically generated potential with the desired vacuum• Stable scales, i.e., only small radiative corrections (no fine
tuning)• Appropriate textures (from charges and vev)
a little-Higgs inspired scenario
Little Higgs meets little flavon: the flhiggs model
[F. Bazzocchi and MF, hep-ph/0407358]
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Group structureGroup structure
SU(10) [SU(3)xU(1)]WxU(1)X xU(1)F
SO(10)
spontaneous
explicit2 2
2
[SU(3)xU(1)]WxU(1)X xU(1)F
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The sigma modelThe sigma model
vacuum
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The sigma model, IIThe sigma model, II
Lagrangian
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Effective potentialEffective potential
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Example: the right-handed neutrinosExample: the right-handed neutrinos
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Parameters in the potentialParameters in the potential
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flhiggs: 2 triplets of opposite flavor charge, 2 triplets of opposite X charge
this VEV breaksSU(3)xU(1)xU(1)to U(1)Q
Low-energy effective theoryLow-energy effective theory
[SU(3)xU(1)]WxU(1)X xU(1)F
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Experimental constrainsExperimental constrains
• Tree-level deviations in ballpark of radiative corrrections
• T parameter and Weinberg angle (at the 10-2 level)
• Z’ mass > 690 GeV
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Particle spectrum Particle spectrum
• vW fixed by GF
• vF fixed by experimental constrains• f fixed by texture parameter
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TexturesTextures
quarks
leptons
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The numerical analysisThe numerical analysis
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The (lightest) Higgs bosonThe (lightest) Higgs boson
• Gaussian distribution for all parameters of potential around 1 with spread of 20%