The accidental Higgs

Abstract

We suggest that the Higgs is a light composite state that does not emerge from TeV scale strong dynamics for any generic reason, such as when it is pseudo-Goldstone boson. Instead, a state that is Higgs-like and fairly decoupled from heavier states may simply be a reflection of very particular strong dynamics, with properties quite distinct from more familiar large-$N_c$ type gauge dynamics. We elaborate on this picture in the context of a strongly interacting fourth family and an effective 4-Higgs-doublet model. The origin of a decoupling limit and the corrections to it are discussed.

18 pages, 4 figures, published version

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