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Distinguishing the Higgs Boson from the Dilaton at the Large Hadron Collider

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Goldberger, Walter D., Grinstein, Benjamín, Skiba, Witold·2008·Physical Review Letters

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It is likely that the LHC will observe a color- and charge-neutral scalar whose decays are consistent with those of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson. The Higgs interpretation of such a discovery is not the only possibility. For example, electroweak symmetry breaking could be triggered by a spontaneously broken, nearly conformal sector. The spectrum of states at the electroweak scale would then contain a narrow scalar resonance, the pseudo-Goldstone boson of conformal symmetry breaking, with Higgs-boson-like properties. If the conformal sector is strongly coupled, this pseudodilaton may be the only new state accessible at high energy colliders. We discuss the prospects for distinguishing this mode from a minimal Higgs boson at the LHC and ILC. The main discriminants between the two scenarios are (i) cubic self-interactions and (ii) a potential enhancement of couplings to massless SM gauge bosons.

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Authors
Goldberger, W. D., Grinstein, B., & Skiba, W.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2008-03-21
Volume
100
Issue
11
Pages
111802-111802
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
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378
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