# Lattice-Friendly Gauge Completion of a Composite Higgs with Top Partners

**Authors:** Helene Gertov, Ann E. Nelson, Ashley Perko, Devin G. E. Walker

arXiv: 1901.10456 · 2019-03-27

## TL;DR

This paper presents a detailed composite Higgs model with top partners that satisfy 't Hooft matching conditions, potentially allowing lighter top partners and unique decay signatures, suitable for lattice studies and collider searches.

## Contribution

It provides a top-down UV gauge theory construction of a composite Higgs model with global symmetry protection and 't Hooft matching, expanding the understanding of non-minimal spectra.

## Key findings

- Top partners can decay into high multiplicity final states.
- The spectrum includes complete multiplets of a large global symmetry.
- The model is suitable for lattice exploration due to no sign problem.

## Abstract

We give an explicit example of a composite Higgs model with a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Higgs in which the top Yukawa coupling is generated via the partial compositeness mechanism. This mechanism requires composite top partners which are relatively light compared to the typical mass scale of the strongly coupled theory. While most studies of the phenomenology of such models have focused on a bottom-up approach with a minimal effective theory, a top-down approach suggests that that the theory should contain a limit in which an unbroken global chiral symmetry protects the mass of the top partners, and the spectrum of the partners satisfies `t Hooft matching conditions. We therefore consider a model for the UV gauge group which could provide a solution to the matching conditions, and note that the relatively light fermions and pseudo-Goldstone bosons fall into complete multiplets of a large approximate global symmetry. This implies that the spectrum of particles lighter than a few TeV is non-minimal. Our example illustrates likely features of a composite Higgs theory, and also serves as an example of a non-chiral theory with no sign problem and a possible solution to `t Hooft matching conditions. It would therefore be very interesting for a lattice exploration. We find in this example that for some low-energy parameters in the effective theory the top partners can decay into high multiplicity final states, which could be difficult for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to constrain. This may potentially allow for the top partners to be lighter than those in more minimal models.

## Full text

_Full body text omitted from this summary view._ Fetch the complete paper as Markdown: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1901.10456/full.md

## References

33 references — full list in the complete paper: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1901.10456/full.md

---
Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1901.10456