The 4D Composite Higgs

TL;DR

This paper introduces a four-dimensional framework for Composite Higgs Models that encapsulates key features of higher-dimensional theories, enabling effective potential computation and LHC phenomenology analysis.

Contribution

It presents a minimal 4D model capturing essential composite Higgs physics, including non-minimal effects, facilitating phenomenological studies and simulations relevant for the LHC.

Findings

Effective potential can be computed within the minimal setup.

Non-minimal terms impact electroweak precision parameters.

Model is suitable for LHC phenomenological analysis.

Abstract

We propose a four dimensional description of Composite Higgs Models which represents a complete framework for the physics of the Higgs as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. Our setup captures all the relevant features of 5D models and more in general of composite Higgs models with partial compositeness. We focus on the minimal scenario where we include a single multiplet of resonances of the composite sector, as these will be the only degrees of freedom which might be accessible at the LHC. This turns out to be sufficient to compute the effective potential and derive phenomenological consequences of the theory. Moreover our simplified approach is well adapted to simulate these models at the LHC. We also consider the impact of non-minimal terms in the effective lagrangian which do not descend from a 5D theory and could be of phenomenological relevance, for example contributing to the S-parameter.