Old wine in a new bottle: Technidilaton as the 125 GeV Higgs

Abstract

The first Nagoya SCGT workshop back in 1988 (SCGT 88) was motivated by the walking technicolor and technidilaton. Now at SCGT15 I returned to the “old wine” in “a new bottle”, the recently discovered 125 Higgs boson as the technidilaton. We show that the Standard Model (SM) Higgs Lagrangian is identical to the nonlinear realization of both the scale and chiral symmetries (“scale-invariant nonlinear sigma model”), and is further gauge equivalent to the “scale-invariant Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) model” having possible new vector bosons as the HLS gauge bosons with scale-invariant mass: SM Higgs is nothing but a (pseudo) dilaton. The effective theory of the walking technicolor has precisely the same type of the scale-invariant nonlinear sigma model, thus further having the scale-invariant HLS gauge bosons (technirho’s, etc.). The technidilaton mass [Formula: see text] comes from the trace anomaly, which yields [Formula: see text] via PCDC, in the underlying walking [Formula: see text] gauge theory with [Formula: see text] massless flavors, where [Formula: see text] is the the decay constant and [Formula: see text]. This implies [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] in the one-family walking technicolor model [Formula: see text], in good agreement with the current LHC Higgs data. In the anti-Veneziano limit, [Formula: see text], with [Formula: see text]fixed and [Formula: see text]fixed [Formula: see text], we have a result: [Formula: see text]. Then the technidilaton is a naturally light composite Higgs out of the strongly coupled conformal dynamics, with its couplings even weaker than the SM Higgs. Related holographic and lattice results are also discussed. In particular, such a light flavor-singlet scalar does exists in the lattice simulations in the walking regime.