Exotic top partners and Little Higgs
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Kearney, John
Pierce, Aaron
Thaler, Jesse
Date Issued
October 2013
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Kearney, John, Aaron Pierce, and Jesse Thaler.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Little Higgs models often give rise to top partners beyond the minimal ones necessary for the cancellation of quadratic divergences. We review how this occurs and discuss the phenomenology of these exotic states. We emphasize the possible importance of new pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons in top partner decays. Indeed, cascade decays of exotic top partners may be the best way to discover these new bosons. We illustrate these points with a new Little Higgs construction based on an SO(10)/SO(5)[superscript 2] coset structure, which fills a gap in the model building literature. These observations motivate new search strategies for top partners at the LHC, including for final states with b-jets and a large multiplicity of electroweak bosons.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2013)230
