The Higgs as a composite pseudo-Goldstone boson -- Roberto Contino -- CERN

mardi 15 janv. 2008, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Paris

Salle Grossetete (LPNHE)

Theories in which the Higgs is a composite pseudo-Goldstone boson of a strongly interacting sector interpolate between the two paradigms for electroweak symmetry breaking: technicolor and a fundamental scalar condensate. I will discuss the general features of this class of models and show that they are physically equivalent to 5-dimensional warped theories where the Higgs is realized as the fifth component of a gauge field. Special emphasis will be put on the implications for the LHC.