Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2015)106
Keywords
Discrete and Finite Symmetries; Global Symmetries; Large Extra Dimensions
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- DOE [SC0010008, ARRA-SC0003883, DE-SC0007897]
- Aspen Center for Physics
- NSF [1066293]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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We introduce and systematically study an expansive class of orbifold Higgs theories in which the weak scale is protected by accidental symmetries arising from the orbifold reduction of continuous symmetries. The protection mechanism eliminates quadratic sensitivity of the Higgs mass to higher scales at one loop (or more) and does not involve any new states charged under the Standard Model. The structures of the Higgs and top sectors are universal and determined exclusively by group theoretical considerations. The twin Higgs model fits within our framework as the simplest example of an orbifold Higgs. Our models admit UV completions as geometric orbifolds in higher dimensions, and fit naturally within frameworks of low scale gauge coupling unification.
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