2008/10/27 by Xavier Calmet, X. Calmet, N. G. Deshpande +4
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.79.055021
published as Phys.Rev.D79:055021,2009 · 8 pages
arxiv created 2008/10/27 · openalex publication_date 2009/03/26 · arxiv updated 2010/04/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We explore the consequences of an electroweak symmetry breaking sector which exhibits approximately scale invariant dynamics, i.e., nontrivial fixed point behavior, as in unparticle models. One can think of an unparticle Higgs as a composite Higgs boson with a continuous mass distribution. We find it convenient to represent the unparticle Higgs in terms of a K"allen-Lehmann spectral function, from which it is simple to verify the generation of gauge boson and fermion masses, and unitarization of WW scattering. We show that a spectral function with broad support, which corresponds to approximate fixed point behavior over an extended range of energy, can lead to an effectively invisible Higgs particle, whose decays at CERN LEP or LHC could be obscured by background.