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Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Emergent Electroweak Symmetry Breaking with Composite W, Z Bosons Yanou Cui Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, USA (Work in Preparation with Tony Gherghetta and James D. Wells) PHENO 2009 Symposium, May 11-13, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Outline Introduction 1 Model Setup 2 Electroweak Precision Test 3 WW Scattering Unitarity 4 Signatures at the LHC 5 Conclusions 6

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Have we exhausted reasonable possible EWSB patterns? LHC is starting up late Oct. this year... Major Goal: Unveil the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking An intriguing question to ask ourselves once more at this point: Have we exhausted possible EWSB patterns we can imagine of and get prepared for catching their signatures at the LHC?

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions A brief Review of existing EWSB models Elementary Higgs: EW scale stabilized by SUSY, EWSB triggered by dynamical SUSY breaking in a strong hidden sector Composite Higgs (5D dual): pseudo-Goldstone boson of chiral symmetry breaking Technicolor-like Higgsless (5D dual): σ mode heavy, decouples from low energy theory Common features of all existing EWSB models (4D) To naturally solve ‘gauge hierarchy’ problem–i.e.generate a TeV mass gap via dimensional transmutation, require a new external sector beyond the SM with confining strong dynamics Most of SM fields, esp. gauge fields stay elementary, spectators of strong dynamics, not participants, acquire mass by coupling to the strong sector

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions A ‘wild’ curiosity: Why has to be external strong dynamics? Why not some strong dynamics underlying the SM? Could our current view of SM be similar to seeing mesons, baryons before discovery of QCD quarks, gluons? SM: composites of new underlying constituents, mass directly generated by confinement? ⇒ A new scenario for EWSB? Motivations beyond a ‘wild curiosity’: Composite gauge field/emergent gauge symmetry (breaking) not unfamiliar: QCD ρ meson can be interpreted as a massive gauge field of spontaneously broken hidden local symmetry SU ( 2 ) V to explain universal ρ -coupling, ρ -dominance... (Sakurai, 1960’s etc.)

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Composite gauge boson is conceptually innocuous, even inspiring: Gauge symmetry, unlike global symmetry, is not a true symmetry of nature, does not lead to new conserved charge, merely reflect redundancy in the description (D. J. Gross, “Gauge theory - past, present and future,” 1997) "gauge symmetry may not be fundamental, some gauge symmetries in the SM or even general relativity may be long distance artifacts." (N. Seiberg, “The power of duality: Exact results in 4D SUSY field theory,”1995) Composite W,Z may provide a novel way to unitarize W L W L scattering at high energy due to overall form factor suppression (Conventional approach: introduce graphs involving new intermediate states to cancel the divergence) , and give distinctive signal at the LHC

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Upshot: the ‘wild curiosity’ is worthy of serious exploration Our goal: Explore a realistic Emergent EWSB (or non-TC Higgsless) scenario, focus on composite W , Z for the current work Our strategy: a strongly-coupled 4D theory with good calculability? ⇒ use AdS/CFT duality to construct a 5D warped model with bulk gauge fields which dual to 4D emergent EWSB; EWSB only broken on UV brane, IR brane only used to generate mass gap: different from original RS and all existing warped models where EWSB on IR; 4D dual: EW symmetry is only a global symmetry of strong CFT, confining and CFT breaking at IR generate SM masses

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Serious challenge: composite W,Z ⇔ 1st KK modes peaking at IR; Usual KK mass spectrum in RS1-type model m n ∼ nz − 1 1 ⇒ m Z = m 1 ∼ 90 GeV implies m 2 ∼ 200 GeV ⇐ LEP bound m Z ′ > 1500 GeV A ‘distorted’ spectrum with ultra-light 1st KK?–Turn on brane kinetic term (BKT) – Inspired by earlier work getting light W ′ , Z ′ in RS with elementary SM W,Z (Carena, Ponton,Tait and Wagner; Davoudiasl, Hewett and Rizzo 2003) Naturalness and size of BKT: generally expected at tree-level by 4D Poincare symmetry on branes, even absent at tree-level, loop correction to propagator demands such term as counter-term to cancel log divergence (Dvali, Gabadadze and Shifman 2001, Georgi, Grant and Hailu 2001) ; NDA size: ζ ∼ L ( L ∼ 35 k − 1 in RS: 5th dim size), yet large BKT is perturbatively consistent (Ponton, Poppitz 2001) ⇒ take ζ as a free parameter, fix later by fitting masses, EWPT

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Consider a slice of AdS 5 spacetime � 2 ( η µν dx µ dx ν + dz 2 ) k : AdS curvature of Planck � 1 ds 2 = kz scale. µ = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3, η µν = Diag ( − + ++) . 5th dim z is compactified on a Z 2 orbifold, with a with a UV (IR) brane located at the fixed point z UV ( z IR ) = k − 1 ( TeV − 1 ) . We have 5D bulk EW symmetry SU ( 2 ) L × U ( 1 ) Y , with 5D gauge fields A L M , B M , 5D gauge couplings g L 5 , g Y 5 , field strengths F L MN , F Y MN . EWSB on UV by BC: SU ( 2 ) L × U ( 1 ) Y → U ( 1 ) Q , full symmetry preserved on IR, BKT compatible with brane symmetry are included: ζ Q for U ( 1 ) Q on UV, ζ L , ζ Y for SU ( 2 ) L , U ( 1 ) Y on IR 5D action is then given by � − g [ − 1 MN ) 2 − 1 d 4 x dz � 4 ( F La 4 ( F Y MN ) 2 S = 1 ζ Q ( g Y 5 F L 3 µν + g L 5 F Y µν ) 2 2 ( kz ) δ ( z − z UV ) − g 2 Y 5 + g 2 L 5 1 � µν ) 2 + ζ Y ( F Y µν ) 2 � ζ L ( F La 2 ( kz ) δ ( z − z IR ) ] . −

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions Boundary conditions implementing symmetry breaking, BKT effects: ∂ z ( g Y 5 A L 3 µ + g L 5 B µ ) + ζ Q � ( g Y 5 A L 3  µ + g L 5 B µ ) = 0 ,  g L 5 A L 3 z = z UV : µ − g Y 5 B µ = 0 , A L 1 , 2 = 0 ,  µ ∂ z A La µ − ζ L kz IR � A La � µ = 0 , z = z IR : ∂ z B µ − ζ Y kz IR � B µ = 0 , After KK decomposition, solve E.O.M with BC, we get mass spectrum (W/Z profile plots see next page): A flat zero mode exists: f L 3 0 , f B 0 → photon Lightest KK mode: f L 3 1 , f B 1 → SM Z boson � 2 2 ζ Q k ( 1 + β 2 ) z − 1 m Z ≃ ζ L k + IR . No zero mode for W tower( f L ± ), 1st KK → SM W boson n � 2 ζ L k z − 1 m W ≃ IR .

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions W , Z 5D profiles All higher KK modes have usual masses of ∼ z − 1 IR f 1 � z � 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.01 z � z IR 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Figure: The W -boson (solid) and Z -boson (dashed) profiles in units √ of k .–Peaking at IR, indeed dual composites

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions S , T parameter analysis, natural built-in protection mechanisms T ( ρ ) parameter: UV BKT ζ Q : ‘knob’ of A L 3 − B mixing–with BC at ζ Q → ∞ , A L 3 , B decouple ⇒ A L 1 , 2 , 3 have identical BC on IR/UV, so degenerate KK masses! –A novel custodial mechanism ( SU ( 2 ) L self-protection) already built in the model ⇒ expect ρ = 1 at leading order. S parameter: In 5D model S is fully calculable tree-level effect, straightforward by working out wavefunction normalization: S ∝ ( m Z z IR ) 2 Efficient way to reduce S : reduce m Z z IR , or increase the little hierarchy between Z mass and higher normal KK mass, easily realized by larger BKE (built-in feature) ⇒ 4D dual interpretation: 1-loop correction involving N KK modes/resonances, larger KK KK ∼ z − 2 mass suppression ( m 2 IR ) counterweighs large N sum (origin of large S for TC-like models)

Introduction Model Setup Electroweak Precision Test WW Scattering Unitarity Signatures at the LHC Conclusions V L V L scattering ( V : W , Z ): a particular type of process within the SM ‘cries’ for beyond-the-SM physics at TeV scale SM (alone) prediction: E 4 divergence exactly cancels due to gauge invariance between contact graph and s , t channel graphs; E 2 divergence remains ⇒ tree-level unitarity breaks down at 1 . 8 TeV ⇒ HELP! New physics needed to restore unitarity Known mechanisms of restoring WW unitarity: adding graphs involving Higgs or sum over KK/resonances in Higgsless models to cancel E 2 divergence Novel solution from composite model: nontrivial role of form factors and internal structure