The Higgs Particle and Higher-Dimensional Theories

TL;DR

This paper reviews higher-dimensional theories as potential explanations for the Higgs particle, discussing their predictions of anomalous interactions and implications for future precision tests at colliders.

Contribution

It introduces a classification of new physics theories based on Higgs interactions and highlights their distinctive predictions for Higgs properties and decay modes.

Findings

Both Higgs as gauge boson and as Nambu-Goldstone boson predict anomalous interactions.

Deviations in Yukawa couplings can be tested at the ILC.

Different theories predict distinct contributions to Higgs decay to gamma gamma.

Abstract

In spite of the great success of LHC experiments, we do not know whether the discovered "standard model-like" Higgs particle is really what the standard model predicts or a particle some new physics has in its low energy effective theory. Also the long-standing problems concerning the property of Higgs and its interactions are still there, and we still do not have any conclusive argument of the origin of the Higgs itself. In this article we focus on higher-dimensional theories as new physics. First we give a brief review of their representative scenarios and closely related 4-dimensional scenarios. Among them, we mainly discuss two interesting possibilities of the origin of the Higgs: Higgs as a gauge boson and Higgs as a (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson. Next, we argue that theories of new physics are divided into two categories, i.e. theories with normal Higgs interactions and those with anomalous Higgs interactions. Interestingly both of two candidates concerning the origin of the Higgs mentioned above predict characteristic "anomalous" Higgs interactions, such as the deviation of the Yukawa couplings from the standard model predictions. Such deviations can be hopefully investigated by the precision tests of Higgs interactions at the planned ILC experiment. Also discussed is the main decay mode of the Higgs, $H \to \gamma \gamma$. Again, theories belonging different categories are known to predict remarkably different new physics contributions to this important process.