title: Limits on a composite Higgs boson.
abstract: Precision electroweak data are generally believed to constrain the Higgs boson mass to lie below approximately 190 GeV at 95% confidence level. The standard Higgs model is, however, trivial and can only be an effective field theory valid below some high energy scale characteristic of the underlying nontrivial physics. Corrections to the custodial isospin violating parameter T arising from interactions at this higher energy scale dramatically enlarge the allowed range of Higgs mass. We perform a fit to precision electroweak data and determine the region in the (m(H),delta T) plane that is consistent with experimental results. Overlaying the estimated size of corrections to T arising from the underlying dynamics, we find that a Higgs mass up to 500 GeV is allowed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. sekhar@bu.edu
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Chivukula
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hölbling
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Evans