External Seminar by Matthew McCullough

Thursday 7 Apr 2022, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/London

Title: Gegenbauer Goldstones

Abstract: I will show that, for an approximate SO(N) global symmetry spontaneously broken by the fundamental representation there is an infinite class of radiatively stable pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNGB) potentials which are Gegenbauer polynomials.  This observation will be used to construct new classes of pNGB Higgs models, “Gegenbauer Higgs” and “Gegenbauer’s Twin”, which are significantly less fine-tuned than previously considered pNGB Higgs scenarios.  In particular, the latter requires no fine-tuning to be rendered consistent with LHC measurements and exhibits the smoking gun signal of large Higgs self-coupling modifications which may be discoverable at the HL-LHC.

 

 

Zoom link:  IPPP Seminars (Thursday at 2 pm UK time)

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/94871833595?pwd=Kys2SkNVR3hkV256bWZFZW9oVXBodz09

Meeting ID: 948 7183 3595
Passcode: 570281

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