# LHC Ski 2016, Austria

10-15 April 2016
UZ Obergurgl
Europe/Zurich timezone

## Induced Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Composite Twin Higgs

11 Apr 2016, 18:20
20m
UZ Obergurgl

#### UZ Obergurgl

University Center Obergurgl Gaisbergweg 5 6456 Obergurgl Austria
Talk

### Speaker

Dr Kiel Howe (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

### Description

Induced electroweak symmetry breaking is an alternative to the Standard Model mechanism for triggering the Higgs vev which can preserve a Standard-Model-like Higgs decoupled from additional states. In composite Higgs models, this provides a natural mechanism to explain a hierarchy $v \ll f$ between the EWSB scale and the global symmetry breaking scale. In particular, we describe how composite twin Higgs models with minimal tuning can be realized with this mechanism. A unique feature of this model is the presence of both lower and *upper* bounds on the composite global symmetry breaking scales $\sim 700$ GeV $\lt f \lt \sim 2$ TeV.

### Primary author

Dr Kiel Howe (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)