Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-10-29
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 025018
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages, Latex
Scientific paper
We discuss a mechanism through which the multi-vacua theories, such as String Theory, could solve the Hierarchy Problem, without any UV-regulating physics at low energies. Because of symmetry the number density of vacua with a certain hierarchically-small Higgs mass diverges, and is an attractor on the vacuum landscape.The hierarchy problem is solved in two steps. It is first promoted into a problem of the super-selection rule among the infinite number of vacua (analogous to theta-vacua in QCD), that are finely scanned by the Higgs mass. This rule is lifted by heavy branes, which effectively convert the Higgs mass into a dynamical variable. The key point is that a discrete "brane-charge-conjugation" symmetry guarantees that the fineness of the vacuum-scanning is set by the Higgs mass itself. On a resulting landscape in all, but a measure-zero set of vacua the Higgs mass has a common hierarchically-small value. In minimal models this value is controlled by the QCD scale and is of the right magnitude. Although in each particular vacuum there is no visible UV-regulating low energy physics, the realistic models are predictive. For example, we show that in the minimal case the "charge conjugation" symmetry is automatically a family symmetry, and imposes severe restrictions on quark Yukawa matrices.
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