Perhaps there is a more architectural solution? According to Q-FFF Theory, the single Higgs vacuum particle itself is massless.
However merger particles could result in different Quantum Knots with various masses and shapes.
see also:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93308747@N05/23627741770/in/dateposted-public/
Evaporating Quantum knots ( micro black holes) also found inside high voltage spark produced silicon globules.
Jester wrote:
The big picture. Here sky is the limit.
The situation is completely different than 3 years ago, where there was one strongly preferred (and ultimately true) interpretation of the 125 GeV diphoton and 4-lepton signals as the Higgs boson of the Standard Model.
On the other hand, scalars coupled to new quarks appear in countless model of new physics.
We may be seeing the radial Higgs partner predicted by little Higgs or twin Higgs models,
or the dilaton arising due to spontaneous conformal symmetry breaking, or a composite state bound by new strong interactions.
It could be a part of the extended Higgs sector in many different context,