A higgs-like dilaton: viability and implications

Abstract

We re-examine the feasibility of the higgs-like particle discovered at the LHC being a dilaton: the Goldstone boson of spontaneous breaking of scale invariance. We review the expected phenomenological deviations from the SM higgs and compare with other Goldstone higgs scenarios, with particular emphasis on double higgs production.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Proceedings for LHCP 2013: First Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference, Barcelona, May 13-18, 2013