Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-08-20
JHEP 0811:064,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, V2 JHEP version, metastability discussed
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/064
We show that the effect of the top quark can dominate over the effect of the gauge sector in determining the vacuum alignment in little higgs (LH) models. We demonstrate that in the littlest LH model and the SU(2)xSU(2)xU(1) LH model, ensuring that the correct vacuum alignment is chosen requires that a subset of the gauge sector couplings be large to overcome the effect of the top quark. We quantify this effect by deriving bounds on the couplings in the gauge sector and demonstrate that these bounds provide a compelling theoretical reason for the gauge coupling constant hierarchy in the SU(2)xSU(2)xU(1) model that reduces the Goldstone decay constant scale to a TeV. We also argue that for a class of LH models with T parity the top quark drives the correct vacuum alignment and therefore all gauge couplings can be small.
Grinstein Benjamin
Trott Michael
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