Soft Wall holographic model for the minimal Composite Higgs

TL;DR

This paper employs a holographic approach to model the minimal composite Higgs, analyzing the spectrum of resonances and their phenomenological implications, including compatibility with experimental constraints and potential for new vector resonances.

Contribution

It introduces a bottom-up 5D holographic model for the minimal composite Higgs with $SO(5)\to SO(4)$ symmetry breaking, studying resonance spectra and phenomenology.

Findings

Spin one resonances follow linear radial trajectories.

Massive states from the broken subgroup are heavier.

Model accommodates vector resonances at 2-3 TeV compatible with experimental data.

Abstract

We reassess employing the holographic technique to the description of 4D minimal composite Higgs model with $SO(5)\to SO(4)$ global symmetry breaking pattern. The particular 5D bottom-up holographic treatment is inspired by previous work in the context of QCD and it allows to study spin one and spin zero resonances. The resulting spectrum consists of the states transforming under the unbroken $SO(4)$ subgroup and those with quantum numbers in the $SO(5)/SO(4)$ coset. The spin one states are arranged in linear radial trajectories, and the states from the broken subgroup are generally heavier. The spin zero states from the coset space correspond to the four massless Goldstone bosons in 4D. One of them takes the role of the Higgs boson. Restrictions derived from the experimental constraints (Higgs couplings, $S$ parameter, etc.) are then implemented and we conclude that the model is able to accommodate new vector resonances with masses in the range $2$ TeV to $3$ TeV without encountering phenomenological difficulties. The couplings governing the production of these new states in the processes of the SM gauge boson scattering are also estimated. The method can be extended to other breaking patterns.