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Unitarity in Dirichlet Higgs model
, K.-Y. Oda
Published in Springer New York LLC
2011
Volume: 71
   
Issue: 11
Pages: 1 - 9
Abstract
We show that a five-dimensional Universal Extra Dimension model, compactified on a line segment, is consistently formulated even when the gauge symmetry is broken solely by non-zero Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bulk Higgs field, without any quartic interaction. We find that the longitudinal W+W- elastic scattering amplitude, under the absence of the Higgs zero mode, is unitarized by exchange of infinite towers of KK Higgs bosons. Resultant amplitude scales linearly with the scattering energy ∝ √S, exhibiting five-dimensional nature. A tree-level partial-wave unitarity condition is satisfied up to 6.7 (5.7) TeV for the KK scale mKK = 430 (500) GeV, favored by the electroweak data within 90% CL. © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2011.
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