TY - JOUR
AU - McCullough, Matthew
AU - Guerrero Menkara, Adriana
AU - Salvioni, Ennio
TI - Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson Higgs models: Naturalness at a tipping point
JO - Physical review / D
VL - 112
IS - 7
SN - 2470-0010
CY - Ridge, NY
PB - American Physical Society
M1 - PUBDB-2025-05671
M1 - arXiv:2505.06052
M1 - CERN-TH-2025-067
M1 - DESY-25-052
SP - 075016
PY - 2025
N1 - 17 pages, 3 figures
AB - In scenarios where the Higgs is viewed as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, the question of naturalness finds itself, from a phenomenological perspective, at a tipping point between direct searches and precision. If, by the end of the High-Luminosity LHC operation, all experimental results were to remain consistent with the Standard Model, precision Higgs coupling measurements would begin to drive the naturalness tension. To illustrate this from a fresh perspective, we construct a maximally natural “kitchen sink” model, throwing into the mix three approaches to symmetry-based naturalness: supersymmetry, twin Higgs, and pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson Higgs models with a Gegenbauer potential. In other words, we build a “supersymmetric Gegenbauer’s twin” model. This model not only maximizes naturalness, at least from a technical perspective, but can also interpolate between all three ingredients smoothly, revealing the interplay between direct exploration and precision. Implications for FCC-ee and FCC-hh are discussed.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO - DOI:10.1103/s8bz-lh14
UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/642865
ER -