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Carving Out Parameter Space in Type-II Two Higgs Doublets Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 29 Mar 2013 · 52 references

Pith's verdict: An honest 2HDM-II scan whose qualitative point — the model is a ~1 TeV effective theory — is sturdier than the sharp numbers it quotes.

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CitationBenjam\'in Grinstein, Patipan Uttayarat. "Carving Out Parameter Space in Type-II Two Higgs Doublets Model." arXiv:1304.0028 (2013). https://pith.science/paper/WORWFUSL
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If the 125 GeV particle is the light CP-even Higgs of a Type-II two-Higgs-doublet model, combining Higgs data, $B$ to $X_s$ gamma, electroweak precision, vacuum stability, and perturbativity leaves only a narrow viable window, and none at a

The reading

The paper asks whether the 125 GeV Higgs boson can be the light CP-even scalar of the Type-II two-Higgs-doublet model, a setup in which one doublet gives mass to up-type quarks and the other to down-type quarks and leptons. It fits the Higgs signal strengths to the model's mixing parameters, then scans the remaining masses against $B$ to $X_s$ gamma, electroweak precision data, vacuum stability, and a requirement that couplings stay perturbative up to a cutoff $Lambda$. The central result is that the allowed region is small: with $Lambda=1$ TeV, $tan beta$ lies roughly between 0.75 and 2.75 and the charged Higgs mass between about 380 and 420 GeV, while $Lambda=2$ TeV leaves no viable point. This matters because it turns a generic extended Higgs sector into a constrained low-energy effective theory with a predicted scale for new states, and it gives concrete targets for searches for the heavier neutral and charged Higgs bosons.

What carries the argument

The machinery is a constrained global scan. Higgs production and decay rates are rescaled from the Standard Model by coupling factors $c_t=cos alpha/sin beta$, $c_b=sin alpha/cos beta$, and $c_V=sin(alpha+beta)$, and these are fitted to the reported signal strengths. The scalar couplings are then run from the weak scale to $Lambda$ with one-loop $\beta$ functions, and each point is tested against vacuum-stability inequalities and the perturbativity conditions $lambda_i/(4 pi)<=1$ and $y_i^2/(4 pi)<=1$. The viable region is the intersection of that theoretical survival region with the experimental cuts from $B$ to $X_s$ gamma, the $S$ and $T$ parameters, and direct mass bounds. Related coupling factors then control the phenomenology of $H$, $A$, and $H^pm$.

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Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the result is that the Type-II two-Higgs-doublet model does not remain viable over a broad parameter range once one insists that it be a consistent effective theory up to a cutoff. The global Higgs fit alone prefers very small $tan beta$, where the top Yukawa is non-perturbative, so the authors instead ask where the model can satisfy all constraints simultaneously. The intersection is narrow: the charged Higgs is pushed above 380 GeV by $B$ to $X_s$ gamma and below about 420 GeV by perturbativity, and $tan beta$ is confined to roughly 0.75 to 2.75 for $Lambda=1$ TeV. Raising the cutoff to 2 TeV eliminates the parameter space entirely, which the authors read as evidence that if the two-Higgs-doublet model describes electroweak symmetry breaking, new particles should appear around 1 TeV.

Load-bearing premise

That the model must remain perturbative and vacuum-stable all the way to a chosen cutoff, with perturbativity defined by the hand-set thresholds $lambda_i/(4 pi)<=1$ and $y_i^2/(4 pi)<=1$, is the load-bearing premise; the paper itself shows that tightening the threshold to $1/2$ removes all viable points and relaxing it to $3/4$ leaves only $tan beta=1$ and $1.25$.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the result holds, the Type-II two-Higgs-doublet model can be only a low-energy description: some new physics should enter near 1 TeV, since a 2 TeV cutoff admits no consistent point.
  • The charged Higgs is predicted to sit in a narrow band, 380 to 420 GeV, heavy enough that its main production is with top and bottom quarks and its dominant decay is to $t bar b$, making it hard to see at the LHC.
  • The heavy CP-even $H$ and CP-odd $A$ can still be light; when $H$ to $A Z$ opens, it can dominate and lead to photon-plus-lepton or multiphoton signatures.
  • A low-mass pseudoscalar $A$ has enhanced $gamma gamma$ and $gamma Z$ rates relative to a Standard Model Higgs of the same mass, so existing diphoton and $Z gamma$ searches can test this corner.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The claimed window is conditional on the cutoff and perturbativity threshold; embedding the model in a supersymmetric or composite completion with new states below 1 TeV would change which parameter points are counted as viable.
  • The paper neglects the charged-Higgs loop in $h$ to $gamma gamma$; a full calculation could shift the fitted $alpha$-$tan beta$ region and therefore the boundaries of the surviving window, especially where $M_{H^pm}$ is near 380 GeV.
  • Reanalyzing existing 8 TeV data above 150 GeV in the $gamma gamma$ and $Z gamma$ channels would test the low-mass pseudoscalar corner without waiting for a new run.
Original abstract

We analyze the Type-II two Higgs doublets model in light of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle with mass 125 GeV. The observed 125 GeV particle is identified with the light CP-even Higgs boson in the two Higgs doublets model. We study the parameter space of the model consistent with the Higgs data, branching ratio of $\bar{B}\to X_s\gamma$ as well as precision electroweak measurements. We also incorporate theoretical constraints--- perturbativity of the couplings and vacuum stability, in our study. We find that only a small parameter space of the model remains viable. The phenomenology of the heavy Higgs bosons in the surviving parameter space is studied.

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We analyze the Type-II two Higgs doublets model in light of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle with mass 125 GeV. The observed 125 GeV particle is identified with the light CP-even Higgs boson in the two Higgs doublets model. We study the parameter space of the model consistent with the Higgs data, branching ratio of $\bar{B}\to X_s\gamma$ as well as precision electroweak measurements. We also incorporate theoretical constraints--- perturbativity of the couplings and vacuum stability, in our study. We find that only a small parameter space of the model remains viable. The phenomenology of the heavy Higgs bosons in the surviving parameter space is studied.

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s2 We study the parameter space of the model consistent with the Higgs data, branching ratio of $\bar{B}\to X_s\gamma$ as well as precision electroweak measurements. contribution 0.70 0.92 0.04 asserted 0.87
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s4 We find that only a small parameter space of the model remains viable. result 1.00 0.96 0.86 asserted 1.00
s5 The phenomenology of the heavy Higgs bosons in the surviving parameter space is studied. contribution 0.98 0.90 0.07 asserted 0.83

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Figure 1. The region of parameter space within 1- and 2-σ of the best fit values. The dashed line is the decoupling limit, α+β = ±π/2, where the couplings are SM-like (up to a possible sign flip for the down Yukawa couplings). We also impose the following perturbativity constraint on the couplings y 2 i 4π ≤ 1 , λi 4π ≤ 1. (4.2) We insist on these constraints up to the cutoff scale for all the Yukawa and scalar couplings. We list the beta-functions used in evolving the coupling constants in ap￾pendix B. 4.2 Experimental Bounds A wealth of experimental data, particularly from precision me
Figure 2. The viable particle spectrum for 0.75 ≤ tan β ≤ 2.75. The spectrum depends non-trivially on the charged Higgs mass (MH± ). In each plot the viable parameter space in MH-MA plane shrinks as MH± increases. MH± = 380 (420) GeV corresponds to the color blue (red). We end this section with a brief discussion of the sensitivity of the viable parameter space on the choice of perturbativity condition, eg. equation (4.2). Had we imposed instead that all the reduced couplings remain less than 1/2, there would be no viable parameter space. We find that relaxing the perturbativity constraint…
Figure 3. The heavy CP-even Higgs boson production cross-sections. For each plot, α is taken to be 0.78 (0.58) for tan β = 1.0 (1.5). This choice of α minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. and branching ratios by scaling from the corresponding quantities for the SM Higgs boson. When this scaling procedure is not available, we compute the corresponding quantity at leading order. 5.1 Phenomenology of the CP-even H The couplings of the heavy CP-even Higgs boson H to the SM fermions and gauge bosons are modified with respect to the SM Higgs boson couplings by the rescaling factors c
Figure 4. The heavy CP-even Higgs boson branching ratios for the case of heavy MA. For each plot, α is taken to be 0.78 (0.58) for tan β = 1.0 (1.5). This choice of α minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. bb ΤΤ gg tt AZ 360 380 400 420 10-4 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 MH@GeVD Branching Ratios tan Β = 1, MA = 150 GeV
Figure 5. The heavy CP-even Higgs boson branching ratios for the case of light MA. Here α is taken to be 0.78. This choice of α minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. In a large portion of the available parameter space MH is lighter than 2Mh, MA and MH± ; see figure 2. When this is the case all the available decay channels for the heavy Higgs boson, H, are the same as for the SM Higgs boson. The branching ratios can be obtained by a simple rescaling from the corresponding values of the SM Higgs boson. When MH is sufficiently heavy, the decays H → hh, H → AZ and H → AA – 12 –
Figure 6. The heavy CP-odd Higgs boson production cross-sections. For each plot, α is taken to be 0.78 (0.58) for tan β = 1.0 (1.5). This choice of α minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. SM Higgs. For sufficiently large MA, A can also decay into pair consisting of a neutral CP-even scalar boson and a vector boson, φZ, where φ = h, H. The partial decay widths for A → qq¯ is Γ(A → qq¯) = 3 GFM2 q 4 √ 2π δ 2 qMA q 1 − 4M2 q /M2 A , (5.5) where δq = cot β (tan β) for up-type (down-type) quark. The partial decay width into φZ is given by Γ(A → φZ) = GF 8 √ 2π δ 2 φ
Figure 7. The CP-odd Higgs boson branching ratios. For each plot, α is taken to be 0.78 (0.58) for tan β = 1.0 (1.5). This choice of α minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. Diagrams on the top correspond to the case when MH is sufficiently heavy and cannot be in the decay product of A. Diagrams on the bottom are when MH is light enough to be in the decay product. For definiteness, we take MH = 130 GeV. Here we ignore the effect of near threshold production 5.3 Phenomenology of the Charged Boson H± The viable mass of the charged Higgs boson is larger than that of the top-quark. Thus…
Figure 8. The signal strength µ(A → γγ) and µ(A → γZ) for the case tan β = 1 in the low mass range. matrix. Thus its partial width Γ(H+ → t ¯b) at leading order is Γ(H + → t ¯b) = 3GF 8 √ 2π |Vtb| 2 s (M2 H± − (M2 t + M2 b ))(M2 H± − (M2 t − M2 b )) M2 H± 1 − M2 t M2 H± − M2 b M2 H± 
Figure 9. The charged Higgs boson production cross-sections for the case tan β = 1.0 (1.5) for the left (right) plot with α = 0.78 (0.58). α is chosen such that it minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. Diagrams on the top correspond to the 8 TeV LHC while the bottom are for 14 TeV. and perturbativity of the couplings, as well as experimental bounds from electroweak precision measurements and Br(B¯ → Xsγ) in our scan. We use a working assumption that the 2HDM-II is a valid low energy effective theory up to a cut-off scale Λ. We found that for Λ ≥ 2 TeV, there is no viable parameter s
Figure 10. The charged Higgs boson branching ratios for the case tan β = 1.0 (1.5) for the left (right) plot with α = 0.78 (0.58). α is chosen such that it minimizes χ 2 |tan β for a given value of tan β. The masses of the neutral Higgs boson are chosen so that they are consistent with the viable parameter space shown in figure 2 quarks. The charged Higgs, once produced, decays mostly into a top- and bottom￾quark pair which makes its detection difficult. However, in a corner of parameter space where the heavy CP-even H (or the CP-odd A) is light enough, the decay into H(A)W becomes comparable…

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  • Contrary to statements in e.g. [ref] we find that scenarios where $β-α$ deviates significantly from $π/2$ are disfavoured at one standard deviation and excluded at two standard deviations for $tanβ<5$.

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  • Experimental data are reported in terms of a signal strength, $μ$, defined as [equation] When the signal strength is not directly reported by the experimental collaboration, we extract it from the reported 95% exclusion limit following the procedure given in Ref. [ref] .

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