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Implications for New Physics from Fine-Tuning Arguments: II. Little Higgs Models
We examine the fine-tuning associated to electroweak breaking in Little Higgs
scenarios and find it to be always substantial and, generically, much higher
than suggested by the rough estimates usually made. This is due to implicit
tunings between parameters that can be overlooked at first glance but show up
in a more systematic analysis. Focusing on four popular and representative
Little Higgs scenarios, we find that the fine-tuning is essentially comparable
to that of the Little Hierarchy problem of the Standard Model (which these
scenarios attempt to solve) and higher than in supersymmetric models. This does
not demonstrate that all Little Higgs models are fine-tuned, but stresses the
need of a careful analysis of this issue in model-building before claiming that
a particular model is not fine-tuned. In this respect we identify the main
sources of potential fine-tuning that should be watched out for, in order to
construct a successful Little Higgs model, which seems to be a non-trivial
goal.Comment: 39 pages, 26 ps figures, JHEP forma
The 750 GeV Diphoton Excess as a First Light on Supersymmetry Breaking
One of the most exciting explanations advanced for the recent diphoton excess
found by ATLAS and CMS is in terms of sgoldstino decays: a signal of low-energy
supersymmetry-breaking scenarios. The sgoldstino, a scalar, couples directly to
gluons and photons, with strength related to gaugino masses, that can be of the
right magnitude to explain the excess. However, fitting the suggested resonance
width, Gamma ~ 45 GeV, is not so easy. In this paper we explore efficient
possibilities to enhance the sgoldstino width, via the decay into two Higgses,
two Higgsinos and through mixing between the sgoldstino and the Higgs boson. In
addition, we present an alternative and more efficient mechanism to generate a
mass splitting between the scalar and pseudoscalar components of the
sgoldstino, which has been suggested as an interesting alternative explanation
to the apparent width of the resonance.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Large mixing angles for neutrinos from infrared fixed points
Radiative amplification of neutrino mixing angles may explain the large
values required by solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations. Implementation
of such mechanism in the Standard Model and many of its extensions (including
the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model) to amplify the solar angle, the
atmospheric or both requires (at least two) quasi-degenerate neutrino masses,
but is not always possible. When it is, it involves a fine-tuning between
initial conditions and radiative corrections. In supersymmetric models with
neutrino masses generated through the Kahler potential, neutrino mixing angles
can easily be driven to large values at low energy as they approach infrared
pseudo-fixed points at large mixing (in stark contrast with conventional
scenarios, that have infrared pseudo-fixed points at zero mixing). In addition,
quasi-degeneracy of neutrino masses is not always required.Comment: 36 pages, 7 ps figure
The Higgs mass in the MSSM infrared fixed point scenario
In the infrared fixed point (IFP) scenario of the minimal supersymmetric
model (MSSM), the top-quark mass and other physical quantities of the
low-energy theory are insensitive to the values of the parameters of the theory
at some high energy scale. In this framework we evaluate the light CP-even
Higgs mass, , taking into account some important effects that had not been
previously considered. In particular, the supersymmetric correction to the
relation between the running and the physical top-quark masses lowers the value
of , thereby implying a lower predicted value of . Assuming a
supersymmetric threshold of TeV and GeV, we find an upper
bound of GeV; the most plausible value of lies somewhat
below the upper bound. This places the Higgs boson in the IFP scenario well
within the reach of the LEP-2 Higgs search.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX, 5 ps figures, uses psfig.sty. Final version, some
comments and a figure added, references correcte
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