2004/07/21 by Piotr H. Chankowski, Adam Falkowski, Stefan Pokorski +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electroweak interaction #Electroweak scale #Gauge boson #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #Higgs sector #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Scalar (mathematics) #Spontaneous symmetry breaking #Superpartner #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Symmetry breaking #Technicolor #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.08.009
published as Phys.Lett. B598 (2004) 252-262 · 17 pages, no figures, LaTeX
arxiv created 2004/07/21 · openalex publication_date 2004/08/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose a novel mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking in supersymmetric models, as the one recently discussed by Birkedal, Chacko and Gaillard, in which the Standard Model Higgs doublet is a pseudo-Goldstone boson of some global symmetry. The Higgs mass parameter is generated at one-loop level by two different, moderately fine-tuned sources of the global symmetry breaking. The mechanism works for scalar superpartner masses of order 10 TeV, but gauginos can be light. The scale at which supersymmetry breaking is mediated to the visible sector has to be low, of order 100 TeV. Fine-tuning in the scalar potential is at least two orders of magnitude smaller than in the MSSM with similar soft scalar masses. The physical Higgs boson mass is (for tanβ≫1) in the range 120–135 GeV.