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SUMMARY:Dangerous Skyrmions in Little Higgs Models
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DESCRIPTION:In composite Higgs and little Higgs models\, the breaking of t
 he electroweak symmetry is provided by a new\, strongly-interacting sector
 . Apart from the physics of the Higgs boson and of possible top partners\,
  these models are not very predictive\, since the strongly-coupled regime 
 starts just above the TeV scale. There is a unique opportunity to describe
  new "baryons" appearing above this scale as topological solitons of the l
 ow-energy theory. In QCD\, skyrmions give a consistent picture of protons 
 and neutrons purely in terms of the pion fields. Skyrmions appear in most 
 little Higgs models\, and their stability and mass in the range 10-100 TeV
  have important consequences for cosmology. They can be interesting dark m
 atter candidates\, but it is shown that the lightest skyrmion state is ele
 ctrically charged in most existing models.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/confer
 enceDisplay.py?confId=186678
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