Supersymmetry with a pNGB and Partial Compositeness

by Alberto Parolini (SISSA)

Tuesday 10 Dec 2013, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

Buildg. 2a, Sem.R. 2 (DESY Hamburg)

I discuss the consequences of combining SUSY with a pseudo-Nambu Goldstone Boson (pNGB) Higgs coming from an SO(5)/SO(4) coset and partial compositeness. In particular I focus on the pattern of electroweak symmetry breaking, on the Higgs mass and on how it is protected by supersymmetry and shift symmetry. The two mass scales governing the Higgs potential are the Higgs decay constant f and the scale of the SUSY breaking soft masses. I analyze in detail two weakly coupled models, whose main qualitative difference is in the nature of the right-handed (RH) top tR. Finally, I talk about the fine tuning of the models.