Axion-Higgs unification

作者:Redi Michele*; Strumia Alessandro
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 2012(11): 103.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP11(2012)103

摘要

In theories with no fundamental scalars, one gauge group can become strong at a large scale Lambda and spontaneously break a global symmetry, producing the Higgs and the axion as composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons. We show how KSVZ and DFSZ axion models can be naturally realised. The assumption Lambda approximate to 10(11) GeV is phenomenologically favoured because: a) The axion solves the QCD theta problem and provides the observed DM abundance; b) The observed Higgs mass is generated via RGE effects from a small Higgs quartic coupling at the compositeness scale, provided that the Higgs mass term is fine-tuned to be of electroweak size; c) Lepton, quart as well as neutrino masses can be obtained from four-fermion operators at the compositeness scale. d) Extra fermions can unify the gauge couplings.

  • 出版日期2012-11