PIRSA:25040129

Crunchy critical natural Higgs

Ismail, A. (2025). Crunchy critical natural Higgs. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/25040129

Ismail, Ameen. Crunchy critical natural Higgs. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 29, 2025, https://pirsa.org/25040129 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:25040129,
            doi = {10.48660/25040129},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/25040129},
            author = {Ismail, Ameen},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Crunchy critical natural Higgs},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2025},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:25040129 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ameen Ismail University of Chicago - Enrico Fermi Institute

Talk numberPIRSA:25040129
DOI10.48660/25040129
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I describe a new solution to the Higgs hierarchy problem based on a dynamical vacuum selection mechanism in a landscape which scans the Higgs mass. The Higgs potential only admits a stable minimum when its mass is less than a critical value, cosmologically crunching away patches with a heavier Higgs. This critical value is set by the instability scale where the Higgs quartic turns negative. I consider the phenomenology of two explicit models that address the hierarchy problem in this context.