Exploring holographic Composite Higgs models

TL;DR

This paper investigates the holographic dual of the minimal Composite Higgs model to understand its predictions and compatibility with LHC constraints, revealing that a 5D approach can alleviate tuning issues and accommodate heavier top partners.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the 5D holographic dual of MCHM5 with a small UV cutoff can reconcile naturalness with experimental bounds, offering new insights into model tuning and flavor constraints.

Findings

Lowering the UV cutoff allows for heavier top partners.

The hierarchy among vector-like quarks is not generic, reducing tuning.

Deviations in the top Yukawa coupling can be suppressed or enhanced.

Abstract

Simple Composite Higgs models predict new vector-like fermions not too far from the electroweak scale, yet LHC limits are now sensitive to the TeV scale. Motivated by this tension, we explore the holographic dual of the minimal model, MCHM5, to understand how far naive 4D predictions are from their 5D duals. Interestingly, we find that the usual hierarchy among the vector-like quarks is not generic, hence ameliorating the tuning issue. We find that lowering the UV cutoff in the 5D picture allows for heavier top partners, while keeping the mass of the Higgs boson at its observed value. In the 4D dual this corresponds to increasing the number of colours. This is essentially a Little Randall-Sundrum Model, which are known to reduce some flavour and electroweak constraints. Furthermore, in anticipation of the ongoing efforts at the LHC to put bounds on the top Yukawa, we demonstrate that deviations from the SM can be suppressed or enhanced with respect to what is expected from mere symmetry arguments in 4D. We conclude that the 5D holographic realisation of the MCHM5 with a small UV cutoff is not in tension with the current experimental data.