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The Littlest Higgs

Nima Arkani-Hamed1, Andrew G. Cohen2, Emanuel Katz3 and Ann E. Nelson3

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We present an economical theory of natural electroweak symmetry breaking, generalizing an approach based on deconstruction. This theory is the smallest extension of the Standard Model to date that stabilizes the electroweak scale with a naturally light Higgs and weakly coupled new physics at TeV energies. The Higgs is one of a set of pseudo Goldstone bosons in an SU(5)/SO(5) nonlinear sigma model. The symmetry breaking scale f is around a TeV, with the cutoff Λlesssimf ~ 10 TeV. A single electroweak doublet, the `little Higgs', is automatically much lighter than the other pseudo Goldstone bosons. The quartic self-coupling for the little Higgs is generated by the gauge and Yukawa interactions with a natural size Script O(g2, λt2), while the top Yukawa coupling generates a negative mass squared triggering electroweak symmetry breaking. Beneath the TeV scale the effective theory is simply the minimal Standard Model. The new particle content at TeV energies consists of one set of spin one bosons with the same quantum numbers as the electroweak gauge bosons, an electroweak singlet quark with charge 2/3, and an electroweak triplet scalar. One loop quadratically divergent corrections to the Higgs mass are cancelled by interactions with these additional particles.


Keywords

Beyond Standard Model

Higgs Physics

 

E-print Number: hep-ph/0206021

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PACS

12.60.Fr Extensions of electroweak Higgs sector

14.70.-e Gauge bosons

11.15.Ex Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries

11.30.Ly Other internal and higher symmetries

11.10.Lm Nonlinear or nonlocal theories and models

11.10.Cd Axiomatic approach

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 07 (July 2002)

Received 18 June 2002, accepted for publication 12 July 2002

Published 2 August 2002



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