Third-family quark-lepton unification with a fundamental composite Higgs

We present a model for third-family quark-lepton unification at the TeV scale featuring a composite Higgs sector. The model is based on a variant of the Pati-Salam model, the so-called 4321 model, consisting of the gauge group SU(4)×SU(3)′×SU(2)L×U(1)X. The spontaneous symmetry breaking to the SM ga...

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Published inPhysics letters. B Vol. 811; p. 135953
Main Authors Fuentes-Martín, Javier, Stangl, Peter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 10.12.2020
Elsevier
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Summary:We present a model for third-family quark-lepton unification at the TeV scale featuring a composite Higgs sector. The model is based on a variant of the Pati-Salam model, the so-called 4321 model, consisting of the gauge group SU(4)×SU(3)′×SU(2)L×U(1)X. The spontaneous symmetry breaking to the SM gauge group is triggered dynamically by a QCD-like confining sector. The same strong dynamics also produces the Higgs as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, connecting the energy scales of both sectors. The model predicts a massive U1 vector leptoquark coupled dominantly to the third generation, recently put forward as a possible solution to the B-meson anomalies.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135953