2:1 for naturalness at the LHC?

A large enhancement of a factor of 1.5 - 2 in Higgs production and decay in the diphoton channel, with little deviation in the ZZ channel, can only plausibly arise from a loop of new charged particles with large couplings to the Higgs. We show that, allowing only new fermions with marginal interactions at the weak scale, the required Yukawa couplings for a factor of 2 enhancement are so large that the Higgs quartic coupling is pushed to large negative values in the UV, triggering an unacceptable vacuum instability far beneath the 10 TeV scale. An enhancement by a factor of 1.5 can be accommodated if the charged particles are lighter than 150 GeV, within reach of discovery in almost all cases in the 8 TeV run at the LHC, and in even the most difficult cases at 14 TeV. Thus if the diphoton enhancement survives further scrutiny, and no charged particles beneath 150 GeV are found, there must be new bosons far beneath the 10 TeV scale. This would unambiguously rule out a large class of fine-tuned theories for physics beyond the Standard Model, including split SUSY and many of its variants, and provide strong circumstantial evidence for a natural theory of electroweak symmetry breaking at the TeV scale. Alternately, theories with only a single fine-tuned Higgs and new fermions at the weak scale, with no additional scalars or gauge bosons up to a cutoff much larger than the 10 TeV scale, unambiguously predict that the hints for a large diphoton enhancement in the current data will disappear.


Introduction
The recent announcement of the discovery of the Higgs particle by ATLAS and CMS represents a triumphant milestone for fundamental physics [1,2]. All eyes are now turned to examining the properties of the Higgs in detail, looking for possible deviations from Standard Model (SM) behavior. Indeed, in these early days, both ATLAS and CMS have an accumulating hint of an anomaly. While σ × BR(h → ZZ * ) and σ × BR(h → W W * ) seem compatible with the SM, 1 there appears to be a significant enhancement in the diphoton channel σ × BR(h → γγ), that may be as high as a factor of 2 above the SM expectation: Of course the most conservative and likely possibility is that this modest excess will not survive further scrutiny, and will diminish when all the 2012 data is analyzed. It is nonetheless interesting to contemplate the sorts of new physics that could be responsible for such a large deviation in σ × BR(h → γγ) while leaving σ × Br(h → ZZ * , W W * ) essentially unaltered.
While it is possible, in principle, to satisfy eqs. (1.1)-(1.2) by only adjusting the treelevel couplings of the Higgs to SM particles, we find this possibility rather unlikely for the following simple reason. Assuming that the only modification is via the SM tree-level couplings, then for m h = 125 GeV we have µ couplings. Now in order to obtain, for instance, µ γγ = 1.5 µ V V , there are two solutions: i. (r t /r V ) ≈ 0.2 , or ii. (r t /r V ) ≈ 9. 2 Both of these solutions are highly implausible: allowing an order of magnitude modification to the couplings, it is unlikely that the ∼125 GeV resonance found at the LHC should have production and decay rates that are all-in-all broadly consistent with the SM Higgs boson.
We conclude that eqs. (1.1)-(1.2) most likely require a loop contribution from new particles, enhancing h → γγ. Indeed, a large number of groups have explored this possibility, with additional scalars, vector-like fermions and gauge bosons of various types [3,4]. Our purpose in this note is not to rehash these arguments, but to point out that such a large µ γγ has a profound implication for the deepest question that confronts us at the TeV scale: is electroweak symmetry breaking natural?
Natural theories of electroweak symmetry breaking are expected to have a plethora of new particles at the weak scale, associated with a solution to the hierarchy problem. Some of these particles could be responsible for the observed diphoton enhancement, though this does not automatically occur in the most minimal models. For instance among the minimal supersymmetric SM (MSSM) superparticles, a non-negligible effect can only naturally arise from very light charginos, but even pushing the relevant parameters to their limits one finds µ γγ ∼ < 1. 25 and, more typically, µ γγ < 1.1 [5]. Combining tree-level Higgs mixing with loop corrections from charginos and stops can boost µ γγ > 1.5, but still keeps (µ γγ /µ V V ) 1.4 [5]. Other possibilities, like e.g. light staus with extreme left-right mixing, can be realized [6,7] but come at the cost of fine-tuning.
As is well-known, the concept of naturalness has been under some pressure from a variety of directions, and in the past decade new possibilities for physics beyond the SM have been explored. The idea is that the Higgs is fine-tuned to be light, as a less-dramatic counterpart to Weinberg's anthropic explanation of the smallness of the cosmological constant [8]. Once naturalness is abandoned, there seems to be no need for any new physics at all at the weak scale. However, aside from naturalness itself, this seems to throw out the successes of the best natural theories we have, with low-energy supersymmetry: the beautifully precise prediction of gauge-coupling unification, and WIMP dark matter. It was therefore interesting to find that these successes could easily be preserved in "split" SUSY [9][10][11][12], where all the scalars of SUSY are taken to be heavy but the fermions are light, protected by a chiral symmetry.
Split SUSY is a simple example of a class of fine-tuned theories for physics beyond the SM. These models tend to be more constrained and predictive in their structure than many natural theories. The main reason is that arbitrary fine-tunings are not allowed; any fine-tuning should have a clear "environmental" purpose. If we consider a completely generic theory with many interacting scalars, fermions and gauge fields, a separate finetuning is needed for every light scalar. But additional scalars beyond the Higgs serve no "environmental" purpose. Thus in this framework we don't expect any new light scalars beyond the Higgs. Additional gauge fields would have to be higgsed by fine-tuned scalars, 3 JHEP01(2013)149 so we don't expect new gauge bosons either. Thus, this restricted class of fine-tuned theories can only include new fermions, with no new scalars or gauge fields, up to some scale Λ U V TeV. As an example, in "minimally split" SUSY [13], we expect a loop factor splitting between scalars and gauginos. Here the cut-off of the effective theory Λ U V is the mass of the heavy scalars, with 10 TeV < Λ U V < 10 3 TeV.
Consider the diphoton enhancement in these theories. With the Higgs as the only new scalar, we cannot even entertain the possibility of tree-level modifications giving r V = 1: this route is not only implausible, but impossible. We could, in principle, modify r t through fermion mixing. However, with r t ≈ 0.2 there would be no Higgs signal at all, whereas r t ≈ 9 would not be perturbative. Thus we can only rely on loop effects from new fermions with Yukawa couplings to the Higgs.
The minimal version of split SUSY cannot give a big enough effect -indeed, the only source for enhancement is the same chargino loop as in natural SUSY. Thus a large enhancement of 1.5 -2 immediately rules out this version of split SUSY. We can however certainly imagine extra fermions near the TeV scale; a collection of fermions can have their masses protected by a common chiral symmetry and set by the same scale.
In what follows we ask whether the recent LHC data can be explained in a framework of this sort. We show that restricting to un-natural models with only new fermions immediately leads us to a very narrow set-up with sharp theoretical and experimental implications: (1) new, vector-like, un-colored fermions with electroweak quantum numbers must exist and be very light, within the range 100 − 150 GeV; (2) the cut-off scale of the theory where additional bosonic degrees of freedom must kick in, cannot be high and is in fact bounded by Λ U V ∼ < 1 − 10 TeV. The cut-off can be somewhat increased but only at the expense of significant model-building gymnastics, such as assigning large electric charges |Q| > 1, which further tends to destroy any hope of perturbative gauge coupling unification.

The diphoton rate
A fermionic loop contribution enhancing the Higgs-diphoton coupling requires vector-like representations and large Yukawa couplings to the Higgs boson. This has important ramifications for the consistency of the theory at high scale. To see this, note that in the presence of a new fermion f with electric charge Q, the h → γγ partial width reads 4 A γ SM 2 and 5 A γ SM = −6.49. Constructive interference between the SM and the new fermion amplitude requires electroweak symmetry breaking 4 At leading-log plus leading finite-mass correction; see e.g. [4] for a recent discussion. 5 At leading-log, the SM amplitude is given by the top quark and W boson contributions to the QED beta function, (A γ SM ) leading−log = bt + bW = + (4/3) 2 − 7. Finite mass corrections modify this prediction slightly to A γ SM = −6.49.

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to contribute negatively to the mass of the new fermion. Thus f must be part of a vectorlike representation with an electroweak-conserving source of mass. The basic building block is then the charged vector-like fermion mass matrix, with the Higgs VEV given by H = v/ √ 2 = 174 GeV. Eq. (2.2) contains one physical phase, φ = arg m * ψ m * χ yy c , that cannot be rotated away by field redefinitions. It is straightforward to show that φ = 0 maximizes the effect we are after, making φ = 0 an unilluminating complication for our current purpose. Hence for simplicity we assume φ = 0 in what follows. We are then allowed to take all of the parameters in eq. (2.2) to be real and positive. The two Dirac mass eigenvalues are split by an amount 3) Using eq. (2.1) and assuming that the diphoton rate enhancement comes from changing the partial width Γ(h → γγ), with no change to the gluon fusion production cross section, we have 6 where we generalized to N copies of (2.2). Noting the LEPII constraint m 1 ∼ > 100 GeV, we immediately see that large Yukawa couplings are required in order to achieve a noticeable effect, at least for common charge assignments Q 2 ≤ 1. Even if we maximize the effect by tuning ∆ m = ∆ y = 0 (via m ψ = m χ , y = y c ), an enhancement of µ γγ ≥ 1.5 still requires Before pursuing further the implications of eq. (2.4), we pause to point out that we find it implausible for colored particles (either fermions or bosons, for that matter) to deliver the effect we are after. For colored fermions, the gluon fusion rate is approximately given by an equation similar to (2.1), but replacing 4N c Q 2 /3A γ SM → 2t c , where t c and N c are the color representation constant and dimension. A diphoton width enhancement, going through to the ZZ, W W channels as µ V V ≈ µ GG . For scalars (vector bosons), we would simply rescale δ by a factor of 4 − 4 21 , arriving at the same result. For example, Q = 2/3 particles in the 3 of color would give µ GG ≈ |1 − 3.6 δ| 2 . To accommodate both of eqs. (1.1)-(1.2) in this case, one would need -similar to our discussion of treelevel solutions -to accept large distortions of the SM couplings that conspire to leave a moderately small net observable effect. In figure 1 we illustrate this point, by plotting µ γγ and µ GG as a function of the diphoton amplitude modification δ, for Q = 2/3 particles. For It is obvious from the plot that substantial tuning is required for the colored solution to roughly satisfy eqs. (1.1)-(1.2). Note that while there are two separate colored solutions to µ γγ ∼ 1.5 − 2, one with δ ≈ +0.5 and one with δ ≈ −0.15, the former would imply some ZZ suppression, µ V V ∼ 0.6 − 0.8, while the latter would greatly overshoot the SM value µ V V ∼ 2 − 3. We therefore discard the possibility of colored particles for addressing the diphoton rate anomaly, at least for electric charge assignments Q 2 ≤ 1. We now turn our attention to eq. (2.4) and to the large Yukawa couplings that it requires (given some reasonable assumptions about the sorts of multiplets we allow), in order to give an enhancement of µ γγ ∼ 1.5 − 2. In fact, the needed Yukawa couplings are so large that, unless the new particles are extremely light, the Higgs quartic coupling λ is rapidly driven negative at high scales. Importantly, if we assume only fermions up to high scale, the addition of any other fermions only drives the quartic even more negative. Thus vacuum stability becomes an important constraint. At some scale Λ U V , λ gets so negative that the tunneling rate through false vacuum bubbles of size Λ −1 U V becomes less than the age of the universe. We define Λ U V as the cut-off scale of the (un-natural) theory: here, new bosonic fields must kick in to remedy the instability.
To substantiate these statements, we next consider two concrete examples. Our Higgs field transforms as H ∼ (1, 2) 1 2 . It remains to assign SU (2) representations to the fermions in eq. (2.2).

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There are two charged Dirac fermions L 1,2 with masses m L 1,2 (m L 1 < m L 2 ), separated as in eq. (2.3), and one neutral Dirac fermion N with mass m ψ . Given m L 1,2 , we can compute both µ γγ and the coupling product (yy c ). Using y, y c as initial conditions, we run the theory up in scale. The renormalization group equations (RGEs) are given in appendix A.
In the left panel of figure 2, we plot bands of constant µ γγ (pink) in the (m L 1 , m L 2 ) plane. The width of the bands is obtained by varying ∆ m (see eq. (2.3)) from zero to one. We also plot bands of Λ U V in gray. In dark we tune y = y c and in pale we set y = 2y c (the same result is obtained for y c = 2y).
Only a very small window of masses, 100 GeV< m L 1 <115 GeV and m L 2 ∼ > 430 GeV, is compatible with µ γγ > 1.5 and Λ U V > 10 TeV. Even allowing for Λ U V = 1 TeV, the maximal lighter state mass compatible with µ γγ > 1.5 is bounded by m L 1 140 GeV. The maximum possible value of µ γγ compatible with Λ U V > 1 TeV is ≈ 1.8.
One can repeat the same exercise for larger N . For instance, for N = 4, we find that allowing for Λ U V = 10 TeV, the maximal lighter state mass compatible with µ γγ > 1.5 is bounded by m L 1 200 GeV.
We identify χ and χ c ; the Lagrangian leading to (2.2) is As in the "vector-like lepton" model, there are two charged Dirac fermions with masses m l , m h (m l < m h ). Again, the relevant RGEs are given in appendix A. The results are depicted in the right panel of figure 2. The bounds on µ γγ are somewhat more severe than for the previous example, with Λ U V ≥ 10 TeV and µ γγ ≥ 1.5 only possible for m l < 105 GeV. Allowing for Λ U V = 1 TeV, the maximal lighter state mass compatible with µ γγ > 1.5 is bounded by m l 130 GeV. The maximum possible value of µ γγ compatible with Λ U V > 1 TeV is ≈ 1.75. The "wino-higgsino" example also coincides with SUSY, where χ and ψ, ψ c play the role of the wino and higgsinos. We show the SUSY result by green dashed lines (achieved by varying µ, M 2 ) in the right panel of figure 2. In this case y, y c are limited by the gauge couplings g sin β, g cos β ∼ < 0.5, so the diphoton effect is modest, µ γγ ∼ < 1.2. The choice y = y c maximizes the value of Λ U V for a fixed µ γγ . This amounts to some fine-tuning of parameters: given µ γγ , the product (yy c ) is essentially fixed and so the cut-off scale is very sensitive to mismatch y = y c , as the Higgs quartic runs with (dλ/dt) ∝ y 4 +y c4 . This result is clear in figure 2, where, already for mild splitting y = 2y c , the pale gray band of Λ U V = 10 TeV excludes µ γγ ∼ > 1.4. Admitting large charge Q 2 > 1 would ameliorate the instability problem. For example, vector-like leptons with Q = 2, specified by ψ, ψ c ∼ (1, 2) ± 3 2 , χ, χ c ∼ (1, 1) ∓2 , can be tuned to provide µ γγ = 1.5 with Λ U V = 10 TeV and the lightest doubly-charged state at 300 GeV. Similarly, considering multiple copies of fermions, N > 1, would increase the cut-off Λ U V for a fixed µ γγ and fermion mass. The fact that Λ U V rises with N can be understood as follows. If we rescale N at fixed µ γγ and mass m L 1 , the weak-scale initial condition for the Yukawa RGE changes roughly as y 2 0 → (y 2 0 /N ). Keeping only the y terms in the Yukawa

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RGEs we have d(N y 2 )/dt ∝ (N y 2 ) 2 ; hence the running coupling (N y 2 ) is approximately invariant under N rescaling. Including only the y 4 contribution in the running of the Higgs quartic λ, we now have dλ/dt ∝ (N y 2 ) 2 /N . As a result, the cut-off scale shifts roughly as Λ U V → Λ N U V . In figure 3 we repeat our exercise of figure 2 with N = 2 identical copies of vector like fermions. The maximal lightest fermion mass compatible with µ γγ = 1.5 is somewhat larger than for N = 1, but still not larger than ∼ 150 GeV for Λ U V ∼ > 10 TeV. Instead of doubling our basic "vector-like lepton" model, it is arguably more economical to add only vector-like SU(2) singlets, or doublets, but not both. It is straightforward to show, however, that the vacuum stability constraint in this case is more severe than for N = 2 copies of the full set-up. The reason is that the Yukawa and Higgs quartic RGEs in the two possibilities are the same, up to an un-important difference in the SM gauge beta functions, while the diphoton enhancement from the three resulting charged Dirac eigenstates cannot exceed that from the four eigenstates of N = 2. A similar conclusion applies if we extend the "wino-higgsino" model by adding either extra triplets or extra doublets but not both.
Finally we return briefly to the possibility, explored in figure 1 and the corresponding discussion, that the diphoton enhancement is produced by colored particles. There, we argued in general that the colored solution inevitably involves fine tuning, regardless of the spin of the particle. For colored fermions, this possibility is also strongly constrained by vacuum stability, as it requires very large Yukawa couplings. Indeed, calculating the RGEs for a generation of vector-like up-type quarks, 7 we find that imposing Λ U V > 1 TeV implies µ γγ < 1.
To conclude, a diphoton enhancement µ γγ = 1.5 through a minimal vector-like set of fermions requires a light charged state with mass below 115 GeV, even when we allow a very low cut-off scale Λ U V = 10 TeV for the theory and judiciously tune the parameters to maximize the effect by setting 8 φ = 0, ∆ m = 0, and y = y c . Relaxing the parameter tuning slightly brings us down to the LEPII bound, excluding the model or, at best, implying that the numerical value of the mass is tuned. Extending the set-up to N = 2 identical copies of vector-like fermions allows for slightly less precise parameter tuning (though the number of tuned parameters is doubled), but the lightest fermions must still lie below ∼ 150 GeV for Λ U V ∼ > 10 TeV. Even allowing N = 4 identical copies of vector-like fermions, the upper bound of the lightest fermions' masses only slightly increases to ∼ 200 GeV for Λ U V ∼ > 10 TeV.

Collider signals and electroweak constraints
The light charged fermions discussed in the previous section are produced through electroweak processes with appreciable rates at hadron colliders. In this section we consider constraints and detection prospects from current and upcoming searches, assessing charchteristic detection channels and providing rough estimates of the experimental sensitivity. 7 The field content we consider is ψ ∼ (3, 2) 1 . See [14][15][16] for electroweak precision constraints on this field content, in the context of modified Higgs couplings.   We stress that our analysis is simplistic, and can by no means replace a full-fledged collider study. Nevertheless, our estimates provide solid motivation and concrete guidelines for a more dedicated study in the future, should the diphoton enhancment be confirmed by upcoming data. We limit the discussion to a single set of vector-like fermions. We use the notation of our "vector-like lepton" example, for simplicity, but most of the discussion also applies to the "wino-higgisino" model.
The most important production mode for N = 1 is pp → L + 1 L − 1 . To calculate the production cross sections we use the FeynRules package [17] interfaced with MadGraph 5 [18]. In the left panel of figure 4 we plot σ(pp → L + 1 L − 1 ), in the "vector-like lepton" model, as a function of the lightest charged state mass, setting y = y c and ∆ m = 0. Other cross sections are generically smaller, because of the mass gap that is required to enhance the Higgs diphoton coupling. For example, for m L 1 = 100 GeV, obtaining µ γγ = 1.5 requires  figure 4 we plot the cross section of the lightest charged state pair production in the "wino-higgisino" model. The cross section is much larger compared to the "vector-like lepton" case. The reason is that in the y = y c , ∆ m = 0 limit, where the singlet and doublet components are maximally mixed, the lightest charged state coupling to the Z boson is suppressed by a small factor (4 sin θ 2 W − 1) ≈ 0.08. Thus pp(p) → L + 1 L − 1 mainly goes through a photon. The cross section grows away from the y = y c , ∆ m = 0 limit, where the doublet component of the lightest state can be increased (at the cost of reducing the Higgs diphoton coupling), and the suppression is absent in the "wino-higgsino" model. Thus the left panel of figure 4 gives the rock bottom lower limit for the cross section expected in our scenario, while the right panel gives a rough upper limit. In our models, taken as they are, the lightest charged fermion is stable. For the masses of interest, however, this possibility is already excluded by searches for heavy stable charged particles (HSCPs) [19]. It is easy to reach this conclusion by looking at the excluded cross section in the direct stau production case. The rather model independent cuts on the heavy particle p T , time of flight and energy loss by ionization should retain a comparable efficiency on our signal. We therefore consider two modifications of the minimal set-up: (A). It is always possible to add one or more extra SM singlets n ("sterile neutrino" or "bino" in the "vector-like lepton" and "wino-higgsino" models, respectively), with Yukawa couplings L = −y n H † ψn − y c n Hψ c n + cc and mass term 1 2 m n nn. Mixing with the SU(2) component, N , makes room for a neutral state, n 1 , with mass below that of the charged L 1 . This opens up the decay mode L 1 → W ( * ) n 1 , where the W boson can be on-or off-shell depending on the mass splitting between L 1 and n 1 .

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widths to leptons [20], that are roughly known to ∼ 1 part in 10 4 for each of the three generations. We thus require conservatively |U iL | 10 −2 for i = e, µ, τ . Note that as long as a mixing angle is bigger than ∼ 10 −4 , the decay is prompt. 9 In case (A), the main signature is the pair production of two charged particles decaying to W ( * ) W ( * ) +MET, depicted in the left panel of figure 5. Recently an ATLAS analysis targeting final states with two leptons and MET was released [27]. After the full selection in [27], in the m T 2 signal region an efficiency ranging between 1% and 7% is observed for a signal consisting of chargino pair production, while the measured range for slepton pair production is lower. We take the same efficiency on our signal as that measured in the chargino case. Note that this is only an order of magnitude estimate, as the decay chains are not identical.
The limit on the cross section (that takes into account the W W leptonic branching ratio) from the ATLAS m T 2 signal region (all flavor combined channel) is 42 fb. This should be compared with the cross sections in figure 4 multiplied by the efficiency assumed above. We find that in the "vector-like lepton" case there is not enough sensitivity to probe cross sections comparable to ours, while for large enough mass splittings between L 1 and n 1 (efficiency ∼ 7%) we can already exclude the interesting mass range in the "wino-higgsino" model (m l 140 GeV) and it is likely that the LHC will be sensitive to the "vector-like lepton" model by the end of the year (σ × ≈ 31(7)fb for m L 1 = 100(140) GeV).
Note that the minimum mass splitting between chargino and LSP considered in the analysis above is always greater than 75 GeV. In our case, decreasing the splitting between m L 1 and m n 1 , MET and m T 2 cuts quickly loose efficiency and eventually even final state leptons become too soft to be triggered. The only experimental handles in this case are monojet and monophoton + MET searches [28][29][30][31][32], that can also detect the pair production of the lightest neutral state. Current searches are beginning to probe colored particle production cross sections for masses in the few hundred GeV range [33,34], not having yet sensitivity to electroweak production. Translating current limits on new signals is a nontrivial task in the monojet case, due to the large uncertainties on the simulation of ISR [34] and it is even harder to make predictions for the near future. However it was estimated that the discovery reach of the 14 TeV LHC is about 200 GeV for a gaugino LSP and that masses around 120 GeV can be probed already with 10 fb −1 if systematic uncertainties are kept under control [33,35,36]. Monojet estimates must be taken with caution, for the reasons mentioned above, but it was also shown that at the LHC an ISR jet has often a companion in the event. Therefore the results from a second channel with two jets and MET can be combined with the monojet searches to further increase the sensitivity. Attempts in this direction have already been made and the CMS "razor" analysis [37] was shown to have a comparable sensitivity to dark matter production to that of monojet searches [34,38].
In case (B), several different processes lead to multi-lepton final states with little hadronic activity. This scenario is depicted in the middle panel of figure 5. The CMS 9 Searches for displaced vertices and long lived particles decaying inside the detector are currently ongoing at the LHC (see for example [21]) and were performed at the Tevatron [22][23][24][25][26], but there is still no systematic coverage of all the possible lifetimes and final states. We will ignore this possibility in what follows, even though experimentally it is intriguing and could be the subject of a dedicated study.

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multilepton search [39] is currently the most sensitive to final states with low MET, and can already exclude a large fraction of the relevant parameter space. Here, for simplicity, we consider a few decay modes in single exclusive channels. If we take, for example, BR(L 1 → Z + l) ≈ 100%, and assume a flat 70% efficiency times acceptance for each of the four leptons, 10 then we find that the region m L 1 ⊂ (100 − 120) GeV can be excluded already in the "vector-like lepton" model, while the limit extends to ≈ 180 GeV in the "wino-higgsino" case. This estimate was made using a standard CL s technique described in appendix B from a single channel 4l with MET < 50 GeV and H T < 200 GeV and a Drell-Yan lepton pair from a Z decay. The limits are slightly weaker for L 1 → Z + τ . In this case we are not yet sensitive to the "vector-like lepton" model, while we are sensitive to masses up to ≈ 130 GeV in the "wino-higgsino" one. Again this estimate was obtained by looking at a single channel: 3l +1τ h 11 with MET < 50 GeV and H T < 200 GeV and a Drell-Yan lepton pair from a Z decay. It is clear that the rest of the relevant parameter space can easily be covered by the end of the year and that, combining different channels and possibly results from the two experiments, the sensitivity would be increased, covering also more generic scenarios in which the branching ratio to these final states is not exactly one.
In summary, for N = 1, an L 1 decaying to SM leptons is either already ruled out or within reach of the 8 TeV LHC. If, instead, L 1 → W * n 1 (ν) dominates, the relevant final state is W W + MET from L 1 L 1 production, which is still unconstrained for the "vectorlike lepton" model, but also within reach of the 8 TeV LHC. In the worst case, when L 1 and n 1 are nearly degenerate in masses, the monojet searches will be able to probe the relevant parameter space at the 14 TeV LHC. In the latter case, other interesting channels, especially for N > 1, would be the W W W +MET and, to a lesser extent, W Z+MET final states arising from the production of L 1 N as depicted in the right panel of figure 5. Dedicated analyses, beyond the scope of this paper, would improve the current sensitivities for some of the channels. 12 For our purpose here it suffices to show that if the enhancement of the γγ rate will be confirmed and an un-natural theory is responsible for it, then we expect the new fermions involved to be detected in the next few years, or even months.
Finally, in addition to direct searches, light non-singlet fermions are constrained indirectly by electroweak precision tests (EWPTs), especially so given the need for a large electroweak breaking mass to affect µ γγ . Indeed, specializing to the "vector-like lepton" example, 13 in the minimal field content specified by eq. (2.5), we find that µ γγ > 1.5 comes along with a sizable T parameter, whereas µ γγ > 1.75 would be firmly excluded. Nevertheless, the tension with EWPTs can be tuned away by means of additional free model parameters. For instance, mixing with a neutral singlet n, as discussed earlier, produces 10 From [40] we get an efficiency of the kinematical cuts ∼ 0.87. Taking into account the finite acceptance (somewhat optimistically) we obtain the final 0.7 [41]. Notice that this is a huge simplification of the experimental set-up that does not even distinguish between electrons and muons, and is thus only intended to give an order of magnitude estimate. 11 Assuming an hadronic tau identification efficiency, for the HPS algorithm used in the CMS paper, τ h = 0.35 [41][42][43][44] and the same 0.7 efficiency as before for any extra lepton. 12 It is sufficient to think about possible three-lepton resonance searches or monojet searches with the additional requirement of soft leptons in the final state [36]. 13 We expect similar results to hold for the "wino-higgsino" model, as can be deduced e.g. from [45].

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p p(p) an opposite contribution to T that can bring the model back to life even for µ γγ = 2. Since this counter effect relies, again, on sizable Yukawa couplings y n , y c n , it comes at the cost of lowering somewhat further the instability cut-off Λ U V .
In figure 6 we illustrate this behavior by computing S and T , following [46] and performing the EWPT fit for m h = 125 GeV [47]. In the left panel, we indicate with a green shaded area the 95%CL EWPT exclusion region in the (m L 2 , x n ) plane. Here, x n is defined in analogy with eq. (2.3) as x 2 n = (2y n y c n v 2 /m 2 n 1 ), where m n 1 is the lighter neutral state mass, and m L 2 is the mass of the heavier charged state. We set m L 1 = 100 GeV, y = y c , y n = y c n and m ψ = m χ = m n . Also plotted are the diphoton enhancement (pink) and values of Λ U V (gray). In reading the plot, note that walking on the horizontal axis towards larger m L 2 is equivalent to walking up on the left edge of the left panel of figure 2. We see that with some neutral mixing, it is possible to tune away the tension with EWPTs, even for large µ γγ . In the right panel of figure 6 we show on the S − T ellipse three sample model points, marked correspondingly on the left.

JHEP01(2013)149 4 Discussion and conclusions
For a single set of new vector-like fermions, with electric charge |Q| ≤ 1 and large enough Yukawa couplings to give an enhancement of µ γγ = 1.5, demanding that the tunneling rate through false vacuum bubbles of size Λ −1 U V ∼ (10 TeV) −1 is less than the age of the universe requires the existence of a new, un-colored, charged fermion lighter than about 115 GeV. Even with a very low cut-off scale, Λ U V = 1 TeV, an enhancement of µ γγ = 2 is impossible.
A larger number N of fermions allows us parametrically to keep a large enhancement for µ γγ while ameliorating vacuum stability. It is in principle possible, though contrived, to get µ γγ = 1.5 while deferring the instability scale to Λ U V ∼ 10 TeV, though even for N = 2(4) this requires the fermions to be lighter than 150 (200) GeV.
Furthermore the cases with large N are in great tension with any picture of gauge coupling unification in the UV. Let us look at theories which add vector-like matter to split SUSY. One of the main motivations for split SUSY is maintaining supersymmetric gauge coupling unification, but it is easy to see that this feature is lost with a large number of multiplets. Consider the case where the new vector-like matter is in complete multiplets of SU (5). The "vector-like lepton" fit inside a full generation + antigeneration; N = 1 of these multiplets are consistent with perturbative gauge coupling unification, but N > 1 are not. Similarly, the "wino-higgsino" multiplet can fit in a 24 of SU(5), and again only N = 1 is (marginally) consistent with perturbative unifcation. We can even go as far as to consider complete multiplets of SU(3) 3 /Z 3 . The multiplet (3, 1, 1) + (1, 3, 1) + (1, 1, 3)+ conjugate contains exactly stable uncolored fractionally charged particles; these could give a diphoton enhancement but are forced to be so heavy by HSCP searches that the required Yukawa couplings are too large to be consistent with vacuum stability even for N = 1 multiplet. The usual matter multiplet (3,3, 1) + (1, 3,3) + (3, 1, 3)+ conjugate is too large even for N = 1. Finally we can consider (8, 1, 1) + (1, 8, 1) + (1, 1, 8); this contains both the "vector-like lepton" and "wino-higgsinos". But again gauge coupling unification restricts us to having at most one of these multiplets. We conclude that in any reasonable picture preserving perturbative gauge coupling unification, we can have either N = 1 "vector-like lepton" or "wino-higgsino", or at most one of each.
We thus conclude that even non-minimal un-natural theories at the weak scale can not explain a large µ γγ , unless they have new charged fermions lighter than about 115 − 150 GeV. These charged fermions are so light that in most cases they should be possible to exclude or discover with the 2012 LHC data. If such light states are not discovered, and at the same time the large enhancement µ γγ ∼ 1.5 − 2 persists, then there must be new scalars or gauge bosons far beneath the 10 TeV scale. The enhanced diphoton rate reported by ATLAS and CMS could be the harbinger of natural electroweak symmetry breaking within reach of the LHC. Alternately, fine-tuned theories such as split SUSY or any of its variants where only new fermions (with conventional electric charges |Q| ≤ 1) are allowed below a few 10 TeV, unambiguously predict that the hint for an enhanced diphoton rate and unaffected ZZ rate in the current data must disappear.
We take as initial conditions, at a scale µ = 100 GeV, The vacuum stability cutoff scale Λ U V is determined by [51] λ (Λ U V ) =

B Estimates of the collider constraints
In this section, we present our estimates of the bounds on σ× , where includes acceptance, trigger and identification efficiencies, efficiencies of the kinematical cuts and the branching ratio to the relevant final state. We use a standard CLs technique to obtain the bounds and we take the number of observed events and the predicted background with its error from the CMS mulitlepton search at 7 TeV performed with an integrated luminosity of 5 fb −1 [39]. To get the excluded cross section, we first construct the likelihood as L(n|n s + n b ) = P(n|n s + n b )G(n b |n obs b , σ b ) , (B.1) where P is a Poisson distribution and we take a gaussian ansatz G for the background. Then we compute the CL s , where P is the probability obtained marginalizing the likelihood and n d is the number of events observed in the data. Requiring CL s ≤ 0.05 fixes n s to its 95% C.L. excluded value.
In this way we obtain the cross section limits in table 1.
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