A Resolution of the Flavor Problem of Two Higgs Doublet Models with an Extra U(1)_H Symmetry for Higgs Flavor

Chaehyun Yu (KIAS); P. Ko; Yuji Omura

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A Resolution of the Flavor Problem of Two Higgs Doublet Models with an Extra U(1)_H Symmetry for Higgs Flavor

P. Ko, Yuji Omura, Chaehyun Yu (KIAS)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 20 Apr 2012 · 26 references

Pith's verdict: The core idea — gauging Higgs flavor to kill tree-level FCNC — is clean and correct; the abstract's leptophobic/leptophilic claim is a property of one tuned completion, not of the Type-II/IV U(1)_H as such.

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CitationChaehyun Yu (KIAS), P. Ko, Yuji Omura. "A Resolution of the Flavor Problem of Two Higgs Doublet Models with an Extra U(1)_H Symmetry for Higgs Flavor." arXiv:1204.4588 (2012). https://pith.science/paper/YQKPU77P

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The part worth your time is simple and right: if the two doublets carry different U(1)_H charges, gauge invariance forbids H1†H2, so no soft Z2 breaking is needed, tree-level FCNC from neutral scalars is gone, and the would-be pseudoscalar is eaten by Z_H. That is a genuine upgrade over the Glashow-Weinberg Z2, and it costs nothing conceptually. The Type-I section is the nicest piece: one free parameter, anomaly-free without extra fermions, and the B−L, R, and Y special cases fall out cleanly. Those tables you can check by hand in ten minutes, and they check out. The observation that the usual 2HDM's massless-A problem simply disappears is also correct and underappreciated in the older literature on gauged flavor symmetries. So the framework claim [abstract:s1] stands, and I would not let anyone talk you out of that. The soft spot is [abstract:s2]. In the Type-II section the paper's own first assignment is u = n = h1 nonzero, which forces e = −h1 ≠ 0 — that is leptophilic, not leptophobic. The leptophobic label only appears after switching to the E6-inspired charges of Table IV, and the text itself concedes that in that completion 'the mixing terms between the SM fermions and the extra fermions are allowed at tree level, so that their Yukawa coupling must be tuned.' So the dichotomy in the abstract is a feature of one tuned, non-minimal completion, not of Type-II U(1)_H generically. That is an overstatement, though a modest one for a Letter. Related: the anomaly conditions are never written out. Only the U(1)_H^3 relation is given; the mixed SU(3)^2, SU(2)^2, U(1)_Y^2 and gravitational conditions that actually fix the remaining charges are absent, and the Type-IV mapping is a parenthetical charge shift with no independent check. The ρ-parameter bound in Eq. (3) is quoted rather than derived — standard, minor. One slip: the phenomenology section still discusses searching for 'the CP-odd neutral Higgs boson A,' which the minimal model does not have. Who should read it: anyone working on 2HDM flavor, gauged flavor symmetries, or light Z' with Higgs-sector couplings. It is a useful reference for 'gauged NFC' even where the details are thin. Send it out. The core is sound, the gaps are the kind referees will ask to be filled, and the paper is honest that it is a sketch.

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[Type-II and Type-IV 2HDMs, Table IV and surrounding text] The text states that the E6-inspired assignment has (q,u,d) = (-1/3, 2/3, -1/3) and (l,e,n) = (0,0,1), but Table IV lists the right-handed charged lepton with U(1)_H = -1 and the neutral lepton with U(1)_H = -1, i.e. (l,e,n) = (0,-1,-1). Table IV also lists lRi as an SU(2) doublet with Y = -1/2, which is not the quantum-number assignment of a right-handed charged lepton. Since the leptophobic label depends on which lepton charges vanish, this text-table inconsistency is load-bearing and must be reconciled before the abstract's claim can be assessed.
[Type-II and Type-IV 2HDMs, anomaly conditions] The abstract presents the leptophobic/leptophilic result as a consequence of 'imposing the anomaly cancellation', but the anomaly conditions are never written out. The text states 'we require 3 Q̂_R Q̂_L + n̂_R n̂_L = 0 for U(1)_H^3 anomaly cancellation', which is not the standard cubic condition for vector-like pairs (that would involve the cubes of the charges), and the mixed conditions — SU(3)^2 U(1)_H, SU(2)^2 U(1)_H, U(1)_Y^2 U(1)_H, U(1)_Y U(1)_H^2, and gravitational — are not enumerated. The U(1)_Y U(1)_H^2 cancellation is deferred to Refs. [6,7]. The reader therefore cannot verify that the assignments in Tables II–IV actually satisfy all anomaly conditions, which is the paper's stated method for fixing the charges.
[Type-I 2HDM, Table II] Table II is asserted to give an anomaly-free assignment for general (u,d), with 'one free parameter', but the anomaly conditions that this assignment is claimed to satisfy are not exhibited. In particular, the U(1)_Y^2 U(1)_H condition is not shown, and it is not obvious that it vanishes for the listed examples such as (u,d) = (1/3,1/3) (B-L) and (2/3,-1/3) (Y). The paper should either display the full set of conditions and verify the table entries, or state explicitly which conditions are assumed to hold and why. The phrase 'one free parameter' is also unclear given that Table II contains two parameters u and d; presumably the ratio u/d is meant, but this should be said.
[Type-II and Type-IV 2HDMs, Type-IV mapping] The Type-IV realization is given only as a parenthetical charge shift, '(Q̂_L, Q̂_R) should be (u/2 + 6Q̂_R - 3n̂_R, -u/2 + 6Q̂_R - 3n̂_R)', with no independent check that the resulting spectrum is anomaly-free or that the leptophilic label survives. The abstract's claim that Type-IV is leptophilic is therefore asserted rather than derived. A short explicit verification, or a statement that the check is deferred to Ref. [11], would make the claim assessable.
[Type-II and Type-IV 2HDMs, E6 completion] The paper's own text acknowledges that in the E6-inspired completion 'the mixing terms between the SM fermions and the extra fermions are allowed at tree level, so that their Yukawa coupling must be tuned to avoid the strong constraints from FCNC processes'. This means the leptophobic label attaches to a tuned, non-minimal completion rather than to the generic Type-II U(1)_H. The abstract and conclusion should state this limitation explicitly, since otherwise the reader will take 'Type-II becomes leptophobic' to be a property of the minimal Type-II assignment.

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[Table IV] The quantum-number columns for lRi and nLi appear to be mislabelled: lRi is shown as an SU(2) doublet with Y = -1/2, and nLi as a singlet with Y = 0; the standard assignments are (1,1,-1) and (1,1,0) respectively. Please correct the table.
[Eq. (3)] The ρ-parameter constraint uses m̂_Z^2 and m̂_Z_H^2 without defining the hat notation; a sentence defining these masses would help the reader.
[Higgs sector, paragraph after Eq. (5)] The phrase 'there is no dangerous Peccei-Quinn symmetry leading to a massless Z'' should presumably read 'massless pseudoscalar'; as written it is confusing.
[Type-I 2HDM, bullet list] The bullet for (u,d) = (0,0) says Z_H is 'fermiophobic and Higgsphilic' and then refers to 'the leptophobic Z' studied in Ref. [5]'; the analogy is not immediate and could be stated more carefully.
[Conclusion] The statement that 'the Higgs mediated FCNC may not be enhanced much even if we include the loop effects, unlike the MSSM' is asserted without argument; a brief justification or a pointer to Ref. [11] would strengthen it.
[Abstract and Type-III section] The abstract mentions only Type-II and Type-IV, but the Type-III section also discusses leptophobic and leptophilic assignments. Either mention Type-III in the abstract or explain why it is excluded from the summary.
[References] Ref. [11] is listed as 'work in progress' and is relied on for the detailed Higgs phenomenology; this is acceptable for a Letter but should be flagged in the text where the deferral occurs.

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The paper proposes replacing the ad hoc discrete symmetry that suppresses Higgs-mediated flavor changing neutral currents in two-Higgs-doublet models with a local U(1) gauge symmetry acting on Higgs flavor, and works out what anomaly cancel

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Two-Higgs-doublet models need a rule that stops both doublets from coupling to the same fermions, otherwise neutral Higgs exchange generates flavor-changing neutral currents at tree level. The standard rule is a hand-inserted $Z_2$ parity, which has no known origin, must be softly broken to avoid domain walls, and leaves a massless pseudoscalar unless something else is added. The authors argue that if the two doublets carry different charges under a new local $U(1)_H$ gauge symmetry, the offending operator $H_1^dagger H_2$ is forbidden by gauge invariance itself, so the Glashow-Weinberg criterion follows from a gauge principle rather than a postulate, and the would-be pseudoscalar is eaten to become the longitudinal mode of the new $Z_H$ boson. The price is a set of gauge-anomaly conditions, and the paper's concrete result is what those conditions force: in the Type-II and Type-IV versions the surviving $U(1)_H$ is leptophobic and leptophilic respectively, while the Type-I version leaves a two-parameter family that includes $U(1)_{B-L}$, a right-handed $U(1)_R$, and hypercharge itself. If the construction holds, the flavor problem of the two-Higgs-doublet model is no longer a separate assumption bolted onto the model but a consequence of the gauge structure, and every such model comes with a new neutral gauge boson and possibly new chiral fermions and dark matter candidates.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the gauged Higgs-flavor charge assignment: two doublets with $h_1 neq h_2$ under $U(1)_H$, which makes the would-be flavor-changing operator $H_1^dagger H_2$ gauge non-invariant and simultaneously makes the determinant of the neutral gauge-boson mass matrix non-zero, Eq. (2). That single assignment does three jobs at once: it reproduces the Glashow-Weinberg NFC criterion, it removes the massless pseudoscalar by giving it to $Z_H$, and it forbids the soft $Z_2$-breaking term. The second piece of machinery is the anomaly-cancellation bookkeeping, which converts the requirement that the $U(1)_H$ be consistent into concrete charge relations among the Standard Model fermions, the two doublets, and extra vector-like chiral fields, with $3 hat{Q}_R hat{Q}_L + hat{n}_R hat{n}_L = 0$ for the $U(1)_H^3$ condition and further pairs added to cancel the $U(1)_Y U(1)_H^2$ mixed anomaly.

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The central claim is that natural flavor conservation in a two-Higgs-doublet model can be implemented by an extra local $U(1)_H$ symmetry for Higgs flavor rather than by a softly broken $Z_2$. Give $H_1$ and $H_2$ different charges $h_1 neq h_2$; then $H_1^dagger H_2$ and its square are forbidden in the scalar potential, so the potential reduces to the special case $m_3^2 = lambda_5 = 0$, and the massless pseudoscalar that would normally appear is absorbed by the $Z_H$ boson through the Higgs kinetic terms. Because the symmetry is local, the model does not need soft breaking and does not inherit the domain-wall problem of a spontaneously broken discrete symmetry. The authors then impose anomaly cancellation on the $U(1)_H$ charges and read off what survives in each of the four standard Type-I to Type-IV Yukawa assignments: Type-II becomes leptophobic, Type-IV leptophilic, and Type-I retains a two-parameter freedom whose simple points are $U(1)_{B-L}$, $U(1)_R$ and $U(1)_Y$. They also note that the $Z$-$Z_H$ mass mixing is constrained by the $rho$ parameter, Eq. (3), which limits how large the mixing and how light the new boson can be.

Load-bearing premise

The argument assumes that the anomaly-cancellation conditions can be satisfied for each type with the charge assignments and extra vector-like fermions the authors describe, without spoiling the leptophobic or leptophilic structure; for Type II the paper states that the $U(1)_Y U(1)_H^2$ anomaly is non-zero with the minimal matter content and defers the additional pairs to earlier work.

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Every model in this class predicts a new neutral gauge boson $Z_H$ with couplings fixed by the $U(1)_H$ charges, plus a scalar singlet sector if the symmetry is broken away from the electroweak scale.
The Type-II realization gives a leptophobic $Z_H$, which relaxes the LEP and Drell-Yan bounds that would otherwise push $m_{Z_H}/g_H$ above roughly 6 TeV in a $B-L$ model.
The Type-IV realization gives a leptophilic $Z_H$, so the strongest existing constraints come from lepton searches rather than from dijet resonance searches.
Anomaly cancellation requires extra chiral fermions in the Type-II and Type-IV cases, and some of these, together with a singlet scalar $X$ that does not acquire a vacuum expectation value, are stable and can serve as cold dark matter.
Because there is no physical pseudoscalar $A$ in the minimal version, the usual CP-odd Higgs search channels are replaced by searches for $Z_H$ and for exotic Higgs decays such as $h to Z_H Z_H$.

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The construction suggests a general organizing principle: any multi-doublet model whose flavor protection is a gauge symmetry rather than a discrete parity automatically inherits a vector boson whose mass and couplings are correlated with the flavor structure, so flavor and resonance searches become the same measurement.
If the Type-II charge assignment really is forced to be leptophobic by anomaly cancellation, then the model's collider signature is dijet resonances and $H^pm W^mp Z_H$ production rather than dilepton bumps, which is a qualitatively different search strategy from the usual $Z'$ hunting.
The absence of a physical pseudoscalar in the minimal version is a sharp spectral prediction that distinguishes these models from a generic two-Higgs-doublet spectrum, and it could be tested by looking for the second CP-even state without a CP-odd partner of comparable mass.
The paper's remark that the same structure underlies its earlier leptophobic flavor-dependent models hints that the gauge-symmetry reading may unify a family of apparently separate flavor constructions.

Original abstract

We propose to implement the Natural Flavor Conservation criterion in the two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) to an extra U(1)_H gauge symmetry for Higgs flavor, assuming two Higgs doublets carry different U(1)_H charges. Then one can easily avoid the tree level FCNC from neutral Higgs mediations using local gauge symmetries, instead of softly broken ad hoc Z_2 symmetry, and the pseudoscalar boson could be eaten by extra Z_H boson. Imposing the anomaly cancellation, we find that the U(1)_H in the Type-II and Type-IV 2HDM's become leptophobic and leptophilic, respectively. For the Type-I case, U(1)_H depends on two parameters, and some simple cases include U(1)_H = U(1)_{B-L}, U(1)_R, or U(1)_Y. We sketch qualitative phenomenology of these models.

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We propose to implement the Natural Flavor Conservation criterion in the two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) to an extra U(1)_H gauge symmetry for Higgs flavor, assuming two Higgs doublets carry different U(1)_H charges. Then one can easily avoid the tree level FCNC from neutral Higgs mediations using local gauge symmetries, instead of softly broken ad hoc Z_2 symmetry, and the pseudoscalar boson could be eaten by extra Z_H boson. Imposing the anomaly cancellation, we find that the U(1)_H in the Type-II and Type-IV 2HDM's become leptophobic and leptophilic, respectively. For the Type-I case, U(1)_H depends on two parameters, and some simple cases include U(1)_H = U(1)_{B-L}, U(1)_R, or U(1)_Y. We sketch qualitative phenomenology of these models.

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Extended its previous work on the new 2HDMs with U(1)_H Higgs symmetry.

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In this paper, we extend our previous work about the new 2HDMs with $U(1)_H$ Higgs symmetry [ref] .

Higgs phenomenology in Type-I 2HDM with U(1)_H Higgs gauge symmetry · Introduction · 1.00

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This structure of anomaly cancellation is similar to right-handed fermion specific $U(1)$ case [ref] where the extra charged lepton play a role of right-handed charged lepton in our case.

Lepton specific two-Higgs-doublet model based on a $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry with dark matter · Model setup · 0.83

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For example, in the Type-II 2HDM$_U(1)$, which is the main subject of this work, there is no solution for the anomaly-free conditions without extra chiral fermions, as discussed in Ref. [ref] .

Higgs and Dark Matter Physics in the Type-II Two-Higgs-Doublet Model inspired by E_6 GUT · Introduction · 0.96

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In Refs. [ref] and [ref] , the authors proposed gauged $U(1)'$ symmetry to the SM fermions instead of $Z_2$ symmetry.

Top FB asymmetry vs. (semi)leptonic B decays in multi-Higgs-doublet models · Models with extra Higgs and gauged flavor $U(1)'$ · 0.91
[ref] , gauged $U(1)'$ symmetry is assigned to the SM fermions and newly introduced extra Higgs doublets instead of $Z_2$ symmetry.

B -> D^(*) tau nu and B -> tau nu in chiral U(1)' models with flavored multi Higgs doublets · Models with extra Higgs and gauged flavor $U(1)'$ · 0.85
Another intriguing and well-founded option is $U(1)_H$, initially proposed to tackle the significant flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) issue in the two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) [ref] .

Explaining ATOMKI, $(g-2)_\mu$, and MiniBooNE anomalies with light mediators in $U(1)_H$ extended model · Introduction · 0.82

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Combination of their branching ratios deviates from the SM prediction by $3.4 σ$ [ref] .

Evidence for an excess of B -> D(*) Tau Nu decays · Phenomenology · 0.92

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The 2HDMs have been studied in various contexts (see, for example, Ref. [ref] for a recent review).

Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models · Introduction · 1.00
The Yukawa sectors can be controlled by assigning suitable $Z_2$ parities to the SM fermions, and the models are often categorized into four types as shown in Table [ref] [ref] .

Models of Yukawa interaction in the two Higgs doublet model, and their collider phenomenology · Introduction · 0.84
In each type of 2HDMs, phenomenology of those Higgs bosons has been widely discussed in Refs. [ref] .

Studies on Extended Higgs Sectors as a Probe of New Physics Beyond the Standard Model · Phenomenology · 0.99

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