2018

Direct Constraints, Flavor Physics, and Flavor Anomalies in Composite Higgs Models

Stangl, Peter

Understand

Composite Higgs models (CHMs) offer an elegant solution to the naturalness problem of the Standard Model (SM).

  • Their direct effects at particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are thus of central interest.
  • While no direct effects have been observed so far, there are recent indirect hints for new physics (NP) coming from measurements of rare B meson decays.
  • This thesis studies direct collider constraints on CHMs as well as the question if these models can explain the hints for NP in rare B decays.

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