The Dilaton EFT, the Lattice and the Composite Higgs
The Dilaton EFT, the Lattice and the Composite Higgs
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 6th December 2023
- Speaker: James Ingoldby (Durham University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Title:
The Dilaton EFT, the Lattice and the Composite Higgs
Abstract:
In this talk, I review recent work developing dilaton effective field theory (EFT), which provides a framework for describing the Higgs boson as composite state. The EFT includes a multiplet of pseudo-Goldstone bosons which arise when an approximate global symmetry gets spontaneously broken, as well as the dilaton - a pseudo-Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of an approximate conformal symmetry. The interactions of these states are then powerfully constrained by symmetry principles and power counting rules. The EFT has been checked against results from lattice gauge theory and used to build novel composite Higgs models in which the real world Higgs is an admixture of both the dilaton and one state from the multiplet of pseudo-Goldstone bosons.
About Particle Physics Theory seminars
The Particle Physics Theory seminar is a weekly series of talks reflecting the diverse interests of the group. Topics include analytic and numerical calculations based on the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, theories exploring new physics, as well as more formal developments in gauge theories and gravity..