Finite radiative electroweak symmetry breaking from the bulk Original Research Article

A new physical origin for electroweak symmetry breaking is proposed, involving compact spatial dimensions of scale 1/R≈1 TeV. The higher-dimensional theory is supersymmetric, and hence requires the top-quark Yukawa coupling to be localized on some “Yukawa brane” in the bulk. The short distance divergence in the Higgs-boson mass is regulated because supersymmetry is unbroken in the vicinity of this Yukawa brane. A finite, negative Higgs mass-squared is generated radiatively by the top-quark supermultiplet propagating a distance of order R from the Yukawa brane to probe supersymmetry breaking. The physics of electroweak symmetry breaking is therefore closely related to this top propagation across the bulk, and is dominated by the mass scale 1/R, with exponential insensitivity to higher energy scales. The masses of the superpartners and the Kaluza–Klein resonances are also set by the mass scale 1/R, which is naturally larger than the W boson mass by a loop factor.