EPJ Web of Conferences (Jun 2012)

Composite Higgs under LHC Experimental Scrutiny

  • Mühlleitner M.,
  • Grojean C.,
  • Espinosa J.R.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20122808004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28
p. 08004

Abstract

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The LHC has been built to understand the dynamics at the origin of the breaking of the electroweak symmetry. Weakly coupled models with a fundamental Higgs boson have focused most of the attention of the experimental searches. We will discuss here how to reinterpret these searches in the context of strongly coupled models where the Higgs boson emerges as a composite particle. In particular, we use LHC data to constrain the compositeness scale. We also briefly review the prospects to observe other bosonic and fermionic resonances of the strong sector.