Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry

We present “Custodial Naturalness” as a new mechanism to explain the separation between the electroweak (EW) scale and the scale of potential ultraviolet completions of the Standard Model (SM). We assume classical scale invariance as well as an extension of the SM scalar sector custodial symmetry to...

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Main Authors: Thede de Boer, Manfred Lindner, Andreas Trautner
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325000012
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description We present “Custodial Naturalness” as a new mechanism to explain the separation between the electroweak (EW) scale and the scale of potential ultraviolet completions of the Standard Model (SM). We assume classical scale invariance as well as an extension of the SM scalar sector custodial symmetry to SO(6). This requires a single new complex scalar field charged under a new U(1)X gauge symmetry which partially overlaps with B−L. Classical scale invariance and the high-scale scalar sector SO(6) custodial symmetry are radiatively broken by quantum effects that generate a new intermediate scale by dimensional transmutation. The little hierarchy problem is solved because the Higgs boson arises as an elementary (i.e. non-composite) pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) of the spontaneously broken SO(6) custodial symmetry. The minimal setting has the same number of parameters as the SM and predicts new physics in the form of a heavy Z′ with fixed couplings to the SM and a mass of mZ′≈4−100TeV, as well as a light but close-to invisible dilaton with a mass mhΦ≈75GeV.
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spelling doaj-art-14ac7ce4c9b9425b96546173bd294b972025-02-10T04:33:51ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932025-02-01861139241Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetryThede de Boer0Manfred Lindner1Andreas Trautner2Corresponding author.; Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, GermanyMax-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, GermanyMax-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, GermanyWe present “Custodial Naturalness” as a new mechanism to explain the separation between the electroweak (EW) scale and the scale of potential ultraviolet completions of the Standard Model (SM). We assume classical scale invariance as well as an extension of the SM scalar sector custodial symmetry to SO(6). This requires a single new complex scalar field charged under a new U(1)X gauge symmetry which partially overlaps with B−L. Classical scale invariance and the high-scale scalar sector SO(6) custodial symmetry are radiatively broken by quantum effects that generate a new intermediate scale by dimensional transmutation. The little hierarchy problem is solved because the Higgs boson arises as an elementary (i.e. non-composite) pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) of the spontaneously broken SO(6) custodial symmetry. The minimal setting has the same number of parameters as the SM and predicts new physics in the form of a heavy Z′ with fixed couplings to the SM and a mass of mZ′≈4−100TeV, as well as a light but close-to invisible dilaton with a mass mhΦ≈75GeV.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325000012
spellingShingle Thede de Boer
Manfred Lindner
Andreas Trautner
Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
Physics Letters B
title Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
title_full Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
title_fullStr Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
title_full_unstemmed Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
title_short Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
title_sort electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325000012
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