The Unhiggs

@inproceedings{Stancato2008TheU,
  title={The Unhiggs},
  author={David Stancato and John Terning},
  year={2008}
}
We examine a scenario where the Higgs is part of an approximate conformal field theory, and has a scaling dimension greater than one. Such an unparticle Higgs (or Unhiggs) can still break electroweak symmetry and unitarize WW scattering, but its gauge couplings are suppressed. An Unhiggs model has a reduced sensitivity of the weak scale to the cutoff, and can thus provide a solution to the little hierarchy problem. 
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