THiNKiNG STRONG - CP3-Origins

electroweak symmetry breaking and its experimental
validation.
O’ Higgs where art Thou?
A careful analysis of the different decay modes, and
scattering amplitudes allowing to determine the nature of the
Higgs is in order. We will use the effective Lagrangian
approach in which a singlet state is added to the non-linearly
realized SM Lagrangian featuring only the already
discovered fields. We will then consider different limits, e.g.
the case of the SM Higgs. This analysis is extremely
important especially in view of the recent tantalizing
experimental results released by the ATLAS and CMS
collaborations. In fact, combining different channels ATLAS
reported 3.6 standard deviations excess for a reference Higgslike
state with a mass around 126 GeV. This analysis will help
elucidate the nature of this state.
By the end of 2012, depending on LHC performance, we
might know if a particle similar to the SM Higgs boson has
been discovered or excluded. Whatever the experimental
outcome will be novel dynamics can play a fundamental role.
This is so since there are a number of theoretical drawbacks
with accepting the existence of a SM Higgs. For example a
SM Higgs with a mass around 126 GeV might render the
vacuum of the electroweak sector unstable at high energies,
implying that the SM is an inconsistent theory.
Higgs: Elementary or Composite?
We will investigate a near-conformal (composite) nature of
the Higgs. Here the Higgs is naturally identified with the
state saturating the dilatonic current of the fundamental
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