Deconstructing dimensional deconstruction
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2003-04
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Lane, Kenneth
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Kenneth Lane. 2003. "Deconstructing dimensional deconstruction." Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, Volume 117, pp. 731 - 734. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0920-5632(03)90658-x
Abstract
Dimensional deconstruction (DD) abstracts from higher dimensional models features of related 4-dimensional ones. DD was proposed in Refs. [1–3] as a scheme for constructing models of naturally light composite Higgs boson. These are models in which—without fine-tuning of parameters—the composite Higgs's mass M and vacuum expectation value v are much lighter than its binding energy scale Λ. We review the basic idea of DD. It is easy to arrange M ⪡ Λ. We show, however, that DD fails to give v ⪡ Λ in a model that is supposed to contain a naturally light composite Higgs [4].