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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Natural electroweak breaking from a mirror symmetry
Z Chacko1, Hock-Seng Goh, Roni Harnik
1Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Abstract:
We present "twin Higgs models," simple realizations of the Higgs boson as a pseudo Goldstone boson that protect the weak scale from radiative corrections up to scales of order 5-10 TeV. In the ultraviolet these theories have a discrete symmetry which interchanges each standard model particle with a corresponding particle which transforms under a twin or a mirror standard model gauge group. In addition, the Higgs sector respects an approximate global symmetry. When this global symmetry is broken, the discrete symmetry tightly constrains the form of corrections to the pseudo Goldstone Higgs potential, allowing natural electroweak symmetry breaking. Precision electroweak constraints are satisfied by construction. These models demonstrate that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, stabilizing the weak scale does not require new light particles charged under the standard model gauge groups.
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