Dynamical Electroweak Superconductivity from a Composite Little Higgs

Abstract

I describe, from the bottom up, a sequence of natural effective field theories. Below a TeV we have the minimal standard model with a light Higgs, and an extra neutral scalar. In the 1-10 TeV region these scalars are part of a multiplet of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone Bosons. Interactions with additional TeV mass scalars, gauge bosons, and vector-like charge 2/3 quarks stabilize the Higgs mass squared parameter without finetuning. Electroweak superconductivity may be determined in this effective theory as a UV insensitive vacuum alignment problem. Above the 10 TeV scale we have strongly coupled new gauge interactions.

16 pages, no figures, writeup of talk given at "Strong Coupling Gauge Theories and Effective Field Theories" conference in Nagoya, Japan, Dec 2002

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