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Accidental Goldstone Bosons
We study vacuum alignment in theories in which the chiral symmetry of a set
of massless fermions is both spontaneously and explicitly broken. We find that
transitions occur between different phases of the fermions' CP symmetry as
parameters in their symmetry breaking Hamiltonian are varied. We identify a new
phase that we call pseudoCP-conserving. We observe first and second-order
transitions between the various phases. At a second-order (and possibly
first-order) transition a pseudoGoldstone boson becomes massless as a
consequence of a spontaneous change in the discrete, but not the continuous,
symmetry of the ground state. We relate the masslessness of these ``accidental
Goldstone bosons'' (AGBs) bosons to singularities of the order parameter for
the phase transition. The relative frequency of CP-phase transitions makes it
commonplace for the AGBs to be light, much lighter than their underlying strong
interaction scale. We investigate the AGBs' potential for serving as light
composite Higgs bosons by studying their vacuum expectation values, finding
promising results: AGB vevs are also often much less than their strong scale.Comment: 27 pages, latex, with 12 postscript figure
An Effective Lagrangian for Low-Scale Technicolor
We present an effective Lagrangian for low-scale technicolor. It describes
the interactions at energies near the mass of the lowest-lying bound states of
the lightest technifermion doublet -- the spin-one
and the corresponding technipions . This Lagrangian is intended to put
on firmer ground the technicolor straw-man phenomenology used for collider
searches of low-scale technicolor. The technivectors are described using the
hidden local symmetry (HLS) formalism of Bando et al. The Lagrangian is based
on , where
is the electroweak gauge group and is the HLS gauge
group. Special attention is paid to the higher-derivative standard HLS and
Wess-Zumino-Witten interactions needed to describe radiative and other decays
of the and , respectively.Comment: Updated introduction, to appear in Phys. Rev.
The Muon Collider as a factory
We show that a muon collider is ideally suited for the study of heavy H/A
scalars, cousins of the Higgs boson found in two-Higgs doublet models and
required in supersymmetric models. The key aspects of H/A are: (1) they are
narrow, yet have a width-to-mass ratio far larger than the expected muon
collider beam-energy resolution, and (2) the larger muon Yukawa allows
efficient s-channel production. We study in detail a representative Natural
Supersymmetry model which has a 1.5 Tev H/A with - = 10 Gev. The
large event rates at resonant peak allow the determination of the individual H
and A resonance parameters (including CP) and the decays into electroweakinos
provides a wealth of information unavailable to any other present or planned
collider.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
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