English

CP violation and BSM Higgs bosons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-12-13 v1

Abstract

We study extensions of the Standard Model (SM) in which copies of the SM scalar SU(2) doublet are added to the Higgs sector. These scalar doublets either acquire a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV) and hence are active or do not develop a VEV and are inert. We consider CP-violation (CPV) in both the active and inert sector. As an example of a model with CPV in the active sector, we present a Type-I 2-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) with two active doublets and show Large Hadron Collider (LHC) signals of such a scenario. The amount of CPV in this case is very limited due to constraints coming from Electric Dipole Moment experiments. Moreover, 2HDMs with only active doublets do not provide a Dark Matter (DM) candidate. As a result, we turn to 3-Higgs-Doublet Models (3HDMs) where unbounded CPV and viable DM candidates could be introduced simultaneously in the inert sector. We investigate DM phenomenology of such models.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1612.03629,
  title  = {CP violation and BSM Higgs bosons},
  author = {Venus Keus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03629},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures, talk given at the Workshop `Charged 2016: Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders', 3-6 October 2016, Uppsala, Sweden

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