Strong Dynamics, SUSY, and Bipartisan EWSB

by Jamison Galloway (INFN, Rome)

Thursday 2 Dec 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

I will discuss ongoing work describing a case in which electroweak symmetry breaking is shared between a technicolor-like sector and an elementary SUSY (MSSM) sector. The model aims to improve some of the major naturalness issues of the MSSM and of technicolor by mixing them in a new way. Mixing the two sectors allows the elementary Higgs to inherit a large quartic, naturally lifting its mass above the Z pole. Sharing EWSB also implies a reduced confinement scale in the strong sector, which gives a decreased IR contribution to the precision electroweak parameters and suggests low-scale resonances that could be easily within reach at the LHC.