# Electroweak Higgs as a pseudo-Goldstone boson of broken scale invariance

## TL;DR

This paper proposes that the electroweak Higgs boson can be interpreted as a pseudo-Goldstone boson resulting from broken scale invariance, offering a natural solution to the hierarchy problem while remaining consistent with experimental data.

## Contribution

It introduces two gauge models where the Higgs is a pseudo-Goldstone boson of broken scale invariance, maintaining the standard model's predictive power and minimal parameter extension.

## Key findings

- Models are consistent with experimental data.
- First model adds only one parameter beyond the standard model.
- Second model has the same number of parameters as the standard model.

## Abstract

We point out that it is possible to associate the electroweak Higgs boson with the pseudo-Goldstone boson of broken scale invariance, thus resolving the hierarchy problem in a technically natural way. We illustrate this idea with two specific gauge models. Besides being consistent with all currently available experimental data, both models maintain the predictive power of the standard model, since the first model has only one additional parameter beyond the standard model, and the second has the same number of free parameters as the standard model.