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Little Higgs model completed with a chiral fermionic sector

2004; American Physical Society; Volume: 70; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevd.70.075021

1550-7998

Otto C. W. Kong,

Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

The implementation of the little Higgs mechanism to solve the hierarchy problem provides an interesting guiding principle to build particle physics models beyond the electroweak scale. Most model building works, however, pay not much attention to the fermionic sector. Through a case example, we illustrate how a complete and consistent fermionic sector of the TeV effective field theory may actually be largely dictated by the gauge structure of the model. The completed fermionic sector has specific flavor physics structure, and many phenomenological constraints on the model can thus be obtained beyond gauge, Higgs, and top physics. We take a first look on some of the quark sector constraints.