Electroweak scale invariant models with small cosmological constant
arXiv:1112.0607
Abstract
We consider scale invariant models where the classical scale invariance is broken perturbatively by radiative corrections at the electroweak scale. These models offer an elegant and simple solution to the hierarchy problem. If we further require the cosmological constant to be small then such models are also highly predictive. Indeed, the minimal such model, comprising a Higgs doublet and a real singlet, has the same number of parameters as the standard model. Although this minimal model is disfavoured by recent LHC data, we show that two specific extensions incorporating neutrino masses and dark matter are fully realistic. That is, consistent with all experiments and observations. These models predict a light pseudo-Goldstone boson, , with mass around 10 GeV or less. A fermionic-bosonic mass relation is also predicted. The specific models considered, as well as more generic scale invariant models, can be probed at the LHC.
12 pages; v2 - revision reflects the LHC discovery of Higgs-like particle
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