Dynamical generation of the weak and Dark Matter scales from strong interactions
Abstract
Assuming that mass scales arise in nature only via dimensional transmutation, we extend the dimension-less Standard Model by adding vector-like fermions charged under a new strong gauge interaction. Their non-perturbative dynamics generates a mass scale that is transmitted to the elementary Higgs boson by electro-weak gauge interactions. In its minimal version the model has the same number of parameters as the Standard Model, predicts that the electro-weak symmetry gets broken, predicts new-physics in the multi-TeV region and is compatible with all existing bounds, provides two Dark Matter candidates stable thanks to accidental symmetries: a composite scalar in the adjoint of SU(2) L and a composite singlet fermion; their thermal relic abundance is predicted to be comparable to the measured cosmological DM abundance. Some models of this type allow for extra Yukawa couplings; DM candidates remain even if explicit masses are added.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP01(2015)157
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1410.1817
- Bibcode:
- 2015JHEP...01..157A
- Keywords:
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- Beyond Standard Model;
- Technicolor and Composite Models;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 22 pages, 4 figures. v2: final version to appear on JHEP