A light scalar in low-scale technicolor

This work has been supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant PHY-0905283-ARRA (A.D.), the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant DE-FG02-91ER40676 (K.L.), and Fermilab operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, U.S. Department of Energy Contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 (A.M.). A.D.'s research was also supported in part by the CERN Theory Group and he thanks CERN for its hospitality. K.L.'s research was supported in part by Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH) and the CERN Theory Group and he thanks LAPTH and CERN for their hospitality. We gratefully acknowledge helpful discussions with Eric Pilon, Maria Spiropulu, Brock Tweedie and Chris Vermilion. (PHY-0905283-ARRA - U.S. National Science Foundation; DE-FG02-91ER40676 - U.S. Department of Energy; DE-AC02-07CH11359 - U.S. Department of Energy; Fermilab; LLC; CERN Theory Group)

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