%0 Electronic Article
%A Espinosa, J. R.
%A Panico, G.
%A Pomarol, A.
%A Pujolàs, O.
%A Servant, Geraldine
%A Grojean, Christophe
%T Cosmological Higgs-Axion Interplay for a Naturally Small Electroweak Scale`
%N arXiv:1506.09217
%M PUBDB-2015-05724
%M arXiv:1506.09217
%X Recently, a new mechanism to generate a naturally small electroweak scale has been proposed. It exploits the coupling of the Higgs to an axion-like field and a long era in the early universe where the axion unchains a dynamical screening of the Higgs mass. We present a new realization of this idea with the new feature that it leaves no signs of new physics up to a rather large scale, 10^9 GeV, except for two very light and weakly coupled axion-like states. One of the scalars can be a viable Dark Matter candidate. Such a cosmological Higgs-axion interplay could be tested with a number of experimental strategies.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)25 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)29
%9 PreprintReport
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/291990