Phenomenology of Induced Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

24 Aug 2015, 17:50
20m
Lake

Lake

Higgs Theory and Experiment Higgs Expt., Theory and Phenomenology

Speaker

Spencer Chang (University of Oregon)

Description

In this talk, I will discuss scenarios of induced electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB), where the Higgs vacuum expectation value is induced by another EWSB source. These additional sources can be due to another Higgs vev or technicolor sector and can mitigate constraints on beyond the Standard Model theories (e.g. raising the Higgs mass in supersymmetric models). I will discuss the collider constraints and phenomenology of these models, showing that there are both viable parameter space and striking signatures of cascades with multiple electroweak gauge bosons and 3rd generation fermions. Finally, our projections indicate that searches at run 2 of the LHC can cover the remaining parameter space, reflecting how much the LHC can still discover about the mechanism of EWSB.

Primary authors

Ennio Salvioni (University of California Davis (US)) Jamison Galloway (New York University) Markus Luty (University of California Davis) Spencer Chang (University of Oregon) Yuhsin Tsai (UC Davis)

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