Electroweak symmetry breaking from unparticles
Abstract
A new type of scalar potential inspired by unparticles is proposed for the electroweak symmetry breaking. The interaction between the standard model fields and unparticle sector is described by the non-integral power of fields that originates from the nontrivial scaling dimension of the unparticle operator. We find that unlike the usual integral-power potential, the electroweak symmetry is broken at tree level. The scale invariance of unparticle sector is also broken simultaneously, resulting in a physical Higgs and a lighter scalar particle.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0803.0833
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0803.0833L
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures. References updated