The Minimal Supersymmetric Fat Higgs Model

Daniel T. Larson; Graham D. Kribs; Hitoshi Murayama; Roni Harnik

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The Minimal Supersymmetric Fat Higgs Model

Roni Harnik, Graham D. Kribs, Daniel T. Larson, Hitoshi Murayama

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 26 Nov 2003

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The authors' main claim Supersymmetrizing the Standard Model therefore does not imply a light Higgs mass, contrary to the lore in the literature.

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CitationDaniel T. Larson, Graham D. Kribs, Hitoshi Murayama, Roni Harnik. "The Minimal Supersymmetric Fat Higgs Model." arXiv:hep-ph/0311349 (2003). https://pith.science/paper/SXLGPMHM

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We present a calculable supersymmetric theory of a composite ``fat'' Higgs boson. Electroweak symmetry is broken dynamically through a new gauge interaction that becomes strong at an intermediate scale. The Higgs mass can easily be 200-450 GeV along with the superpartner masses, solving the supersymmetric little hierarchy problem. We explicitly verify that the model is consistent with precision electroweak data without fine-tuning. Gauge coupling unification can be maintained despite the inherently strong dynamics involved in electroweak symmetry breaking. Supersymmetrizing the Standard Model therefore does not imply a light Higgs mass, contrary to the lore in the literature. The Higgs sector of the minimal Fat Higgs model has a mass spectrum that is distinctly different from the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

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We present a calculable supersymmetric theory of a composite ``fat'' Higgs boson. Electroweak symmetry is broken dynamically through a new gauge interaction that becomes strong at an intermediate scale. The Higgs mass can easily be 200-450 GeV along with the superpartner masses, solving the supersymmetric little hierarchy problem. We explicitly verify that the model is consistent with precision electroweak data without fine-tuning. Gauge coupling unification can be maintained despite the inherently strong dynamics involved in electroweak symmetry breaking. Supersymmetrizing the Standard Model therefore does not imply a light Higgs mass, contrary to the lore in the literature. The Higgs sector of the minimal Fat Higgs model has a mass spectrum that is distinctly different from the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

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