Emergent Higgs from hidden dimensions

TL;DR

This paper proposes a higher-dimensional QCD-based model where the Higgs field emerges as a magnetic degree of freedom, providing a UV-complete framework that explains Higgs and top quark masses and predicts new resonances around 1 TeV.

Contribution

It introduces a UV-complete, higher-dimensional Yang-Mills model derived from a deconstructed (2,0) theory, where the Higgs arises as a magnetic excitation.

Findings

Higgs fields emerge as magnetic degrees of freedom.

The model naturally explains Higgs and top quark masses.

Predicts rho meson-like resonances at around 1 TeV.

Abstract

The Higgs mechanism well describes the electroweak symmetry breaking in nature. We consider a possibility that the microscopic origin of the Higgs field is UV physics of QCD. We construct a UV complete model of a higher dimensional Yang-Mills theory as a deformation of a deconstructed (2,0) theory in six dimensions, and couple the top and bottom (s)quarks to it. We see that the Higgs fields appear as magnetic degrees of freedom. The model can naturally explain the masses of the Higgs boson and the top quark. The rho meson-like resonances with masses such as 1 TeV are predicted.