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Higgs decay into photons through a spin-2 loop
A new particle with proprieties similar to those of the Higgs boson in the
Standard Model (SM) has been recently discovered. The biggest discrepancy is
related to its diphoton decay, whose branching ratio seems to be around two
times larger with respect to the correspondent SM value; this evidence, even if
still affected by large uncertainties, suggests that clues of new physics
related to the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry could be hidden
under this loop-induced process. A new strongly-coupled sector responsible for
this breaking, for instance, could produce in analogy with QCD a charged
massive spin-2 state. In light of these arguments we calculate and discuss the
role of such a resonance in the diphoton decay width of the Higgs.Comment: 12 pages + appendices, 5 figures. v2: minor changes, references adde
Natural minimal dark matter
We show how the Higgs boson mass is protected from the potentially large
corrections due to the introduction of minimal dark matter if the new physics
sector is made supersymmetric. The fermionic dark matter candidate (a 5-plet of
) is accompanied by a scalar state. The weak gauge sector is made
supersymmetric and the Higgs boson is embedded in a supersymmetric multiplet.
The remaining standard model states are non-supersymmetric. Non vanishing
corrections to the Higgs boson mass only appear at three-loop level and the
model is natural for dark matter masses up to 15 TeV--a value larger than the
one required by the cosmological relic density. The construction presented
stands as an example of a general approach to naturalness that solves the
little hierarchy problem which arises when new physics is added beyond the
standard model at an energy scale around 10 TeV.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. v2: Discussion on the mass splitting extended and
improved. References adde
Fine Tuning in Quintessence Models with Exponential Potentials
We explore regions of parameter space in a simple exponential model of the
form that are allowed by observational
constraints. We find that the level of fine tuning in these models is not
different from more sophisticated models of dark energy. We study a transient
regime where the parameter has to be less than and the
fixed point has not been reached. All values of the parameter
that lead to this transient regime are permitted. We also point out
that this model can accelerate the universe today even for , leading to a halt of the present acceleration of the universe in the
future thus avoiding the horizon problem. We conclude that this model can not
be discarded by current observations.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
The breaking of the symmetry: The 750 GeV resonance at the LHC and perturbative unitarity
If the di-photon excess at 750 GeV hinted by the 2015 data at the LHC is
explained in terms of a scalar resonance participating in the breaking of the
electro-weak symmetry, this resonance must be accompanied by other scalar
states for perturbative unitarity in vector boson scattering to be preserved.
The simplest set-up consistent with perturbative unitarity and with the data of
the di-photon excess is the Georgi-Machacek model.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. v2: Minor changes, bibliography updated. v3:
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