{"arxiv_id":"hep-ph/9908391","title":"Minimal Composite Higgs Model with Light Bosons","abstract":"We analyze a composite Higgs model with the minimal content that allows a light Standard-Model-like Higgs boson, potentially just above the current LEP limit. The Higgs boson is a bound state made up of the top quark and a heavy vector-like quark. The model predicts that only one other bound state may be lighter than the electroweak scale, namely a CP-odd neutral scalar. Several other composite scalars are expected to have masses in the TeV range. If the Higgs decay into a pair of CP-odd scalars is kinematically open, then this decay mode is dominant, with important implications for Higgs searches. The lower bound on the CP-odd scalar mass is loose, in some cases as low as $\\sim$ 100 MeV, being set only by astrophysical constraints.","primary_cat":"hep-ph","cross_cats":[],"submitted_at":"1999-08-17T22:54:33+00:00","latest_version":2,"source":"arxiv","source_label":"arXiv","source_url":null,"has_pdf":true,"has_source":false,"verdict":null,"confidence":null,"one_line_summary":null,"novelty_score":null,"correctness_risk":null,"formal_verification":null,"upvotes":0,"downvotes":0,"pith_score":0,"inbound_count":7,"_links":{"html":"https://pith.science/paper/hep-ph/9908391","verdict":"/api/v1/verdicts/hep-ph/9908391"}}