Hybrid dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking with heavy quarks and the 125 GeV Higgs

TL;DR

This paper proposes a hybrid electroweak symmetry breaking model combining a heavy-quark condensate and a fundamental scalar doublet, successfully explaining the 125 GeV Higgs and predicting additional scalar particles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hybrid framework for EWSB that integrates a composite heavy-quark condensate with a fundamental-like scalar doublet, addressing previous mass and fine-tuning issues.

Findings

Successfully models a 125 GeV Higgs with SM-like properties.

Predicts additional scalars with masses around 200-500 GeV.

Provides a consistent hybrid two Higgs doublet model at the compositeness scale.

Abstract

Existing models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) find it very difficult to get a Higgs of mass lighter than $m_t$. Consequently, in light of the LHC discovery of the ~125 GeV Higgs, such models face a significant obstacle. Moreover, with three generations those models have a superheavy cut-off around $10^{17}$ GeV, requiring a significant fine-tuning. To overcome these twin difficulties, we propose a hybrid framework for EWSB, in which the Higgs mechanism is combined with a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio mechanism. The model introduces a strongly coupled doublet of heavy quarks with a mass around 500 GeV, which forms a condensate at a compositeness scale $\Lambda$ about a few TeV, and an additional unconstrained scalar doublet which behaves as a "fundamental" doublet at $\Lambda$. This "fundamental"-like doublet has a vanishing quartic term at $\Lambda$ and is, therefore, not the SM doublet, but should rather be viewed as a pseudo-Goldstone boson of the underlying strong dynamics. This setup is matched at the compositeness scale $\Lambda$ to a tightly constrained hybrid two Higgs doublet model, where both the composite and unconstrained scalars participate in EWSB. This allows us to get a good candidate for the recently observed 125 GeV scalar which has properties very similar to the Standard Model Higgs. The heavier (mostly composite) CP-even scalar has a mass around 500 GeV, while the pseudoscalar and the charged Higgs particles have masses in the range 200 -300 GeV.