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Electroweak symmetry breaking from unparticles

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A new type of scalar potential inspired by unparticles is proposed for the electroweak symmetry-breaking. The interaction between the standard model fields and the unparticle sector is described by using the non-integral power of fields that originates from the nontrivial scaling dimension of the unparticle operator. We find that unlike the usual integral-power potential, the electroweak symmetry is broken at the tree level. The scale invariance of the unparticle sector is also broken simultaneously, resulting in a physical Higgs and a lighter scalar particle.

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Lee, JP. Electroweak symmetry breaking from unparticles. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 63, 163–167 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.63.163

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