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Peter W Graham1, David E Kaplan1,2,3,4, Surjeet Rajendran3
1Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Abstract:
A new class of solutions to the electroweak hierarchy problem is presented that does not require either weak-scale dynamics or anthropics. Dynamical evolution during the early Universe drives the Higgs boson mass to a value much smaller than the cutoff. The simplest model has the particle content of the standard model plus a QCD axion and an inflation sector. The highest cutoff achieved in any technically natural model is 10^{8} GeV.
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