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Phenomenology of electroweak symmetry breaking from theory space. (English) Zbl 1226.81299

Summary: Recently, a new class of realistic models for electroweak symmetry breaking have been constructed, without supersymmetry. These theories have naturally light Higgs bosons and perturbative new physics at the TeV scale. We describe these models in detail, and show that electroweak symmetry breaking can be triggered by a large top quark Yukawa coupling. A rich spectrum of particles is predicted, with a pair of light Higgs doublets accompanied by new light weak triplet and singlet scalars. The lightest of these new scalars is charged under a geometric discrete symmetry and is therefore stable, providing a new candidate for WIMP dark matter. At TeV energies, a plethora of new heavy scalars, gauge bosons and fermions are revealed, with distinctive quantum numbers and decay modes.

MSC:

81V15 Weak interaction in quantum theory
81V22 Unified quantum theories
81R40 Symmetry breaking in quantum theory
81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

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