Speaker
Dr
Enrico Rinaldi
(Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Description
Composite Higgs dynamics due to a new gauge sector has recently attracted renewed interest both phenomenologically and on the lattice. In fact, while a scalar particle consistent with the Standard Model Higgs has been discovered at the LHC, the detailed nature of this particle remains unknown. One popular description is that the Higgs is a result of a strongly coupled composite framework, such as models based on the SU(4)/Sp(4) coset. One fundamental theory that yields this coset is an SU(2) gauge theory with 2 flavors in the fundamental representation. We study the spectrum of this theory on the lattice and look at the flavor-singlet scalar channel, where the Higgs particle could emerge as an excitation of the fermion condensate.
Primary author
Dr
Enrico Rinaldi
(Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
