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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)090
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- Spanish Ministry MICNN [FPA2010-17747]
- European Commission [226371 MassTeV]
- GIF
- IRG
- ISF
- Minerva
- [PITN-GA-2009-237920 UNILHC]
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We point out that Higgs rates into gauge bosons can be significantly modified in composite pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) Higgs models if quarks belonging to the first two generation are relatively composite objects as well. Although the lightness of the latter a priori screen them from the electroweak symmetry breaking sector, we show, in an effective two-site description, that their partners can lead to order one shifts in radiative Higgs couplings to gluons and photons. Moreover, due to the pseudo-Goldstone nature of the Higgs boson, the size of these corrections is completely controlled by the degree of compositeness of the individual light quarks. The current measurements of flavor-blind Higgs decay rates at the LHC thus provide an indirect probe of the flavor structure of the framework of pNGB Higgs compositeness.
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