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A fat Higgs with a magnetic personality

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We introduce a novel composite Higgs theory based on confining supersymmetric QCD. Supersymmetric duality plays a key role in this construction, with a “fat” Higgs boson emerging as a dual magnetic degree of freedom charged under the dual magnetic gauge group. Due to spontaneous color-flavor locking in the infrared, the electroweak gauge symmetry is aligned with the dual magnetic gauge group, allowing large Yukawa couplings between elementary matter fields and the composite Higgs. At the same time, this theory exhibits metastable supersymmetry breaking, leading to low-scale gauge mediation via composite messengers. The Higgs boson is heavier than in minimal supersymmetric theories, due to a large F -term quartic coupling as well as small non-decoupling D-terms. This theory predicts quasi-stable TeV-scale pseudo-modulini, some of which are charged under standard model color, possibly giving rise to long-lived R-hadrons at the LHC.

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  1. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA

    Nathaniel Craig

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

    Nathaniel Craig

  3. Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Daniel Stolarski

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Daniel Stolarski

  5. Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Jesse Thaler

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Craig, N., Stolarski, D. & Thaler, J. A fat Higgs with a magnetic personality. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 145 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2011)145

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