TH Thursday Seminar

Electroweak precision tests in the minimal composite Higgs model

Name: Electroweak precision tests in the minimal composite Higgs model
Start: 2005-09-01T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2005-09-01T15:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Roberto Contino (Johns Hopkins University)

Thursday 1 Sept 2005, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

The idea of the Higgs as a composite pseudo-Goldstone boson of a strongly interacting sector has recently found an interesting realization in a calculable extra-dimensional scenario with a warped fifth dimension. We study in detail a 5D minimal model based on an SO(5)/SO(4) symmmetry, performing a detailed analysis of the electroweak precision tests. We find that the strongest constraint comes from Z -> bb. Our conclusions can be generalized to a broader class of 4D composite Higgs models.