TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-organized Higgs criticality
AU - Eröncel, Cem
AU - Hubisz, Jay
AU - Rigo, Gabriele
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Simon Catterall, Csaba Csáki, Michael Geller, Yuval Grossman, Sung-woo Hong, Marek Olechowski, Stefan Pokorski, Prashant Saraswat, and John Terning for helpful discussions at various stages of this project. The authors also thank Csaba Csáki, Michael Geller, and Ofri Telem for helpful comments on this draft in the later stages of preparation. The authors thank Cornell University for hospitality throughout the duration of this project. JH thanks the Aspen Center for Physics for hospitality during part of this research project. The ACP is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-1607611. JH also thanks the University of Grenada and the University of Warsaw for hospitality during extended visits. CE, JH, and GR are supported in part by the DOE under grant award number DE-SC0009998.
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PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - The critical point for a Higgs sector can be a point of interest in the potential for a modulus field such as the radion of an extra dimensional construction, or the dilaton of spontaneously broken approximate conformal invariance. In part motivated by conjectures about the self-organized critical state in statistical physics, we construct a 5D model in which there is an infrared emergent Higgs instability due to violation of the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound deep in the interior of a near AdS geometry. This is holographically dual to a “running” scaling dimension transitioning from real to complex with decreasing scale. The complex scaling indicates an instability to be resolved by condensates which modify the interior geometry and backreact on the 5D radion potential. Studying the model at small gravitational backreaction, we find a rich possible vacuum structure and uncover evidence that resolution of the instability requires a non-trivial cosmology.
AB - The critical point for a Higgs sector can be a point of interest in the potential for a modulus field such as the radion of an extra dimensional construction, or the dilaton of spontaneously broken approximate conformal invariance. In part motivated by conjectures about the self-organized critical state in statistical physics, we construct a 5D model in which there is an infrared emergent Higgs instability due to violation of the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound deep in the interior of a near AdS geometry. This is holographically dual to a “running” scaling dimension transitioning from real to complex with decreasing scale. The complex scaling indicates an instability to be resolved by condensates which modify the interior geometry and backreact on the 5D radion potential. Studying the model at small gravitational backreaction, we find a rich possible vacuum structure and uncover evidence that resolution of the instability requires a non-trivial cosmology.
KW - Beyond Standard Model
KW - Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
KW - Technicolor and Composite Models
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP03(2019)046
DO - 10.1007/JHEP03(2019)046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062644558
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2019
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 46
ER -