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Computational Particle Physics: Is the HIggs Boson a Technicolor Meson?
Chris Schroeder
Department of Physics
UCSD
Abstract
Detecting the Higgs boson is one of the highest priorities
of the current generation of particle physicists. While the Higgs may
be a fundamental particle, the interesting possibility exists that it
is instead composed of "quarks" of a new gauge theory at a higher
energy scale, termed Technicolor. In fact, the Higgs is expected to
be discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in the next two years, and
if the particle's mass is on or above a certain, not unreasonable
scale, then a form of Technicolor may become a prime candidate to
explain its origin. I will describe this puzzle and numerical methods
which we are utilizing to explore it.
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