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Technicolor Assisted Leptogenesis with an Ultra-Heavy Higgs Doublet

arXiv:1112.1939 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.015024

Abstract

If fermion condensation is a main source of electroweak symmetry breaking, an ultra-heavy Higgs doublet of mass ~10^8 GeV can yield naturally small Dirac neutrino masses. We show that such a scenario can lead to a new leptogenesis mechanism based on the decays of the ultra-heavy Higgs. Given its very large mass, the requisite Higgs doublet can be considered an elementary particle and would point to a cutoff scale ~10^10 GeV. We outline how our scenario can also naturally lead to composite asymmetric dark matter. Some potential signals of this scenario are discussed.

6 pages, 1 figure; Clarifying discussion added and references updated