Naturally Light Composite Higgs as a Protected Collective Eigenmode
This paper proposes a novel mechanism for achieving a naturally light composite Higgs by identifying it as a protected collective eigenmode of the strong sector's scalar kernel, characterized by specific diagnostic parameters and a microscopic sensitivity of order one, which is realized through a rank-one locking invariant and universal vectorlike bridge fermions that lift the Higgs mass only at joint two-spurion order.