Convergent Bayesian Global Fits of 4D Composite Higgs Models

TL;DR

This paper performs Bayesian global fits on three minimal composite Higgs models to identify parameter regions consistent with experimental constraints, analyze fine-tuning, and explore collider phenomenology, highlighting potential experimental signatures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Bayesian fitting approach to 4D composite Higgs models, quantifies fine-tuning via Kullback-Leibler divergence, and assesses collider phenomenology of viable models.

Findings

All models satisfy constraints at 3σ level.

Two models predict Higgs to diphoton cross section below 90% of SM.

Lightest fermions are above 1.1 TeV, with promising collider signatures.

Abstract

Models in which the Higgs boson is a composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson offer attractive solutions to the Higgs mass naturalness problem. We consider three such models based on the minimal $SO(5) \rightarrow SO(4)$ symmetry breaking pattern, and perform convergent global fits on the models under a Bayesian framework in order to find the regions of their parameter spaces that best fit a wide range of constraints, including recent Higgs measurements. We use a novel technique to analyse the fine-tuning of the models, quantifying the tuning as the Kullback-Leibler divergence from the prior to the posterior probability on the parameter space. Each model is found to be able to satisfy all constraints at the $3\sigma$ level simultaneously. As a by-product of the fits, we analyse the collider phenomenology of our models in these viable regions. In two of the three models, we find that the $g g \rightarrow H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ cross section is less than ${\sim}90$% that predicted by the SM, which is already in slight tension with experiment and could potentially be ruled out in the future high-luminosity run of the LHC. In addition, the lightest fermions $F$ arising from the new strong dynamics in these models are seen in general to lie above ${\sim}1.1$ TeV, with the $F \rightarrow tW^{+}$ and $F \rightarrow \bar{b}W^{+}$ decays offering particularly promising channels for probing these models in future collider searches.