Flavour and Higgs compositeness: present and "near" future

Abstract

Flavour physics, from now up to the operation of the next high energy collider, will be an important tool for BSM searches at the TeV scale. Although far from exhaustive, a particularly relevant case is represented by the possibility that the Higgs be a composite Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-Boson (PNGB) at a scale $l_H=1/m_{\ast }$. While a totally model-independent assessment of the potential of flavour physics in this case is impossible, here we illustrate what is likely to be a minimal sensitivity on $m_{\ast }$ by considering suitable examples.\

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures