Little Higgs Model Completed with a Chiral Fermionic Sector

Abstract

The implementation of the little Higgs mechanism to solve the hierarchy problem provides an interesting guiding principle to build particle physics models beyond the electroweak scale. Most model building works, however, pay not much attention to the fermionic sector. Through a case example, we illustrate how a complete and consistent fermionic sector of the TeV effective field theory may actually be largely dictated by the gauge structure of the model. The completed fermionic sector has specific flavor physics structure, and many phenomenological constraints on the model can thus be obtained beyond gauge, Higgs, and top physics. We take a first look on some of the quark sector constraints.

14 revtex pages with no figure, largely a re-written version of hep-ph/0307250 with elaboration on flavor sector FCNC constraints; accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D

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