Doubling down on naturalness with a supersymmetric twin Higgs

We explore a simple solution to the cosmological challenges of the original Mirror Twin Higgs (MTH) model that leads to interesting implications for experiment. We consider theories in which both the standard model and mirror neutrinos acquire masses through the familiar seesaw mechanism, but with a low right-handed neutrino mass scale of order a few GeV. In these νMTH models, the right-handed neutrinos leave the thermal bath while still relativistic. As the universe expands, these particles eventually become nonrelativistic, and come to dominate the energy density of the universe before decaying. Decays to standard model states are preferred, with the result that the visible sector is left at a higher temperature than the twin sector. Consequently the contribution of the twin sector to the radiation density in the early universe is suppressed, allowing the current bounds on this scenario to be satisfied. However, the energy density in twin radiation remains large enough to be discovered in future cosmic microwave background experiments. In addition, the twin neutrinos are significantly heavier than their standard model counterparts, resulting in a sizable contribution to the overall mass density in neutrinos that can be detected in upcoming experiments designed to probe the large scale structure of the universe.

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“…(3.3) and (3.13), and using eq. (3.10) to eliminate the ratio of scale factors in favor of the width Γ N we obtain, 14) where R N is given by…”

Section: Jhep07(2017)023mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cosmology in Mirror Twin Higgs and neutrino masses

Chacko

Craig

Fox

et al. 2017

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…Following the analysis of chapter 5.3 of [42] we have 20) where S i are comoving entropy densities and it has been assumed that X is cold by the time it decays so that ρ X = m X n X with number density n X (this is reliable as we only consider m X > 10 GeV, which is above the decoupling temperature of ∼ 1 GeV). The rate of heat flow from sector j to i per proper volume, dq j→j dt , is defined in (3.6).…”

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Cosmological signals of a mirror twin Higgs

Craig

Koren

Trott

2017

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Abstract:We investigate the cosmology of the minimal model of neutral naturalness, the mirror Twin Higgs. The softly-broken mirror symmetry relating the Standard Model to its twin counterpart leads to significant dark radiation in tension with BBN and CMB observations. We quantify this tension and illustrate how it can be mitigated in several simple scenarios that alter the relative energy densities of the two sectors while respecting the softly-broken mirror symmetry. In particular, we consider both the out-of-equilibrium decay of a new scalar as well as reheating in a toy model of twinned inflation, Twinflation. In both cases the dilution of energy density in the twin sector does not merely reconcile the existence of a mirror Twin Higgs with cosmological constraints, but predicts contributions to cosmological observables that may be probed in current and future CMB experiments. This raises the prospect of discovering evidence of neutral naturalness through cosmology rather than colliders.

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“…They are related to the SM fermions and bosons by a discrete Z 2 symmetry which, together with the spontaneous breaking of a global symmetry that turns the Higgs into a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB), guarantees that the Higgs mass be insensitive to the UV contributions. The resulting possibility of having a natural EWSB with the absence of detectable new physics at the LHC has sparked interest in this class of models in the last years, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], but many questions still remain open. In particular, an important problem is to analyze the capability of this scenario to reproduce the observed value of M H , irrespective of any possible UV completion, supersymmetric or composite, of the low-energy Lagrangian.…”

Section: Jhep11(2016)108mentioning

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“…We consider a non-linear implementation of the Twin Higgs symmetries, so that also the radial mode of the linear realization is integrated out. We will be completely agnostic as regards the particular UV completion of the theory, which could be a strongly interacting composite dynamics [6,7], a weakly coupled supersymmetric sector [11,12] or the linear model itself, and as regards any pos-…”

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The RG-improved Twin Higgs effective potential at NNLL

Greco¹,

Mimouni²

2016

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We present the Renormalization Group improvement of the Twin Higgs effective potential at cubic order in logarithmic accuracy. We first introduce a modelindependent low-energy effective Lagrangian that captures both the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson nature of the Higgs field and the twin light degrees of freedom charged under a copy of the Standard Model. We then apply the background field method to systematically re-sum all the one loop diagrams contributing to the potential. We show how this technique can be efficient to implicitly renormalize the higher-dimensional operators in the twin sector without classifying all of them. A prediction for the Higgs mass in the Twin Higgs model is derived and found to be of the order of M H ∼ 120 GeV with an ultraviolet cut-off m * ∼ 10-20 TeV. Irrespective of any possible ultraviolet completion of the lowenergy Lagrangian, the infrared degrees of freedom alone are therefore enough to account for the observed value of the Higgs mass through running effects.

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Doubling down on naturalness with a supersymmetric twin Higgs

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Cosmology in Mirror Twin Higgs and neutrino masses

Cosmology in Mirror Twin Higgs and neutrino masses

Cosmological signals of a mirror twin Higgs

The RG-improved Twin Higgs effective potential at NNLL

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