The Higgs as a composite pseudo-Goldstone boson

by Roberto Contino (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))

Friday 5 Dec 2008, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

Univ. de Geneve, Auditoire 234 (Univ. de Geneve, Auditoire 234)

Theories in which the Higgs is a composite pseudo-Goldstone boson of a strongly interacting sector interpolate between the two paradigms for electroweak symmetry breaking: technicolor and a fundamental scalar condensate. I will discuss the general features of this class of models and show how they are equivalent to 5-dimensional warped theories where the Higgs is realized as the fifth component of a gauge field. Special emphasis will be put on the implications for the LHC.