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Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 169 - 172 (1991)

Scalar bound state in nonminimal technicolor: A surrogate Higgs boson
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Robert N. Cahn
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Mahiko Suzuki
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Received 11 March 1991

Models with many technifermion doublets have enhanced interactions. The one-family technicolor model, which has four doublets, may well have a scalar bound state that resembles a Higgs boson. Using a bubble summation, which is justified in the limit of many isodoublets of technifermions, the binding energy and the decay width of the state can be calculated as a function of the technipion mass. Its partial width into WW and ZZ is of order 10–40 GeV, while the partial width into gluon-gluon is about 0.4 GeV. As a result, this surrogate Higgs boson would be narrow, but copiously produced at very-high-energy hadron colliders.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v67/p169
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.169
PACS: 14.80.Gt, 12.50.Lr

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