Enhanced Higgs boson production and avoidance of CP-violation and FCNC in the MPP inspired 2HDM

The multiple point principle (MPP) can be used to suppress non--diagonal flavour transitions and CP violation in the two Higgs doublet extension of the standard model. We discuss the quasi--fixed point scenario in the MPP inspired two Higgs doublet model which leads to the enhanced production of Higgs particles at the LHC if the MPP scale is low.Comment: Talk given at the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester, England, 19-25 July 2007, CERN preprint number added, references update

The Hierarchy Problem and an Exotic Bound State

The Multiple Point Principle, according to which there exist many vacuum states with the same energy density, is put forward as a fine-tuning mechanism. By assuming the existence of three degenerate vacua, we derive the hierarchical ratio between the fundamental (Planck) and electroweak scales in the Standard Model. In one of these phases, 6 top quarks and 6 anti-top quarks bind so strongly by Higgs exchange as to become tachyonic and form a condensate. The third degenerate vacuum is taken to have a Higgs field expectation value of the order of the fundamental scale.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS04), Boston, 16-22 August 200

Crypto-baryonic Dark Matter

It is proposed that dark matter could consist of compressed collections of atoms (or metallic matter) encapsulated into, for example, 20 cm big pieces of a different phase. The idea is based on the assumption that there exists at least one other phase of the vacuum degenerate with the usual one. Apart from the degeneracy of the phases we only assume Standard Model physics. The other phase has a Higgs VEV appreciably smaller than in the usual electroweak vacuum. The balls making up the dark matter are very difficult to observe directly, but inside dense stars may expand eating up the star and cause huge explosions (gamma ray bursts). The ratio of dark matter to ordinary baryonic matter is expressed as a ratio of nuclear binding energies and predicted to be about 5.Comment: 9 pages. Published version with shorter abstract and new referenc

Smallness of the cosmological constant and the multiple point principle

In this talk we argue that the breakdown of global symmetries in no--scale supergravity (SUGRA), which ensures the vanishing of the vacuum energy density near the physical vacuum, leads to a natural realisation of the multiple point principle (MPP). In the MPP inspired SUGRA models the cosmological constant is naturally tiny.Comment: Talk given at the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester, England, 19-25 July 2007, CERN preprint number added, references update

Tunguska Dark Matter Ball

It is suggested that the Tunguska event in June 1908 cm-large was due to a cm-large ball of a condensate of bound states of 6 top and 6 anti-top quarks containing highly compressed ordinary matter. Such balls are supposed to make up the dark matter as we earlier proposed. The expected rate of impact of this kind of dark matter ball with the earth seems to crudely match a time scale of 200 years between the impacts. The main explosion of the Tunguska event is explained in our picture as material coming out from deep within the earth, where it has been heated and compressed by the ball penetrating to a depth of several thousand km. Thus the effect has some similarity with volcanic activity as suggested by Kundt. We discuss the possible identification of kimberlite pipes with earlier Tunguska-like events. A discussion of how the dark matter balls may have formed in the early universe is also given.Comment: In second version some typos and smaller miscalculations were change