Crunching Dilaton, Hidden Naturalness
Crunching Dilaton, Hidden Naturalness
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.126.091801
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发表时间:
2021-03-01
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Ismail, Ameen
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作者:
Csaki, Csaba;D'Agnolo, Raffaele Tito;Ismail, Ameen
We introduce a new approach to the Higgs naturalness problem. The Higgs mixes with the dilaton of a conformal field theory (CFT) sector whose true ground state has a large negative vacuum energy. If the Higgs vacuum expectation value is nonzero and below O(TeV), the CFT admits a second metastable vacuum, where the expansion history of the Universe is conventional. As a result, only Hubble patches with unnaturally small values of the Higgs mass do not immediately crunch. The main experimental prediction of this mechanism is a dilaton in the 0.1-10 GeV range that mixes with the Higgs and can be detected at future colliders and experiments searching for weakly coupled particles.