Composite scalar bosons masses: Effective potential versus Bethe-Salpeter approach

Abstract

Ten years ago the 125 GeV Higgs resonance was discovered at the LHC [1,2], if this boson is a fundamental particle or a particle composed of new strongly interacting particles is still an open question. If this is a composite boson there are still no signals of other possible composite states of this scheme, a possible solution to this problem was recently discussed in Refs. [30,31], where it is argued that the Higgs boson can be a composite dilaton [30]. In this work, considering an effective potential for composite operators we verify that the potential responsible for a light composite scalar boson of O(120) GeV, behaves like ∝Φ4 suggesting that if the Higgs boson is a composite scalar it may be a composite dilaton.

Keywords

• Technicolor models
• Composite scalar bosons
• Effective potential