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Electron EDM in the complex two-Higgs doublet model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-05-20 v3

Abstract

We present the first complete two loop calculation of the electron EDM in the complex two-Higgs doublet model. We confirm gauge-independence by demonstrating analytic cancellation of the gauge parameter ξ\xi in the background field gauge and the 't Hooft RξR_\xi gauge. We also investigate the behavior of the electron EDM near the decoupling limit, and determine the short- and long-distance contributions by matching onto an effective field theory. Compared with earlier studies of the electron EDM in the complex two-Higgs doublet model, we note disagreements in several places and provide diagnoses where possible. We also provide expressions for EDMs of light quarks.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.01258,
  title  = {Electron EDM in the complex two-Higgs doublet model},
  author = {Wolfgang Altmannshofer and Stefania Gori and Nick Hamer and Hiren H. Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01258},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, 14 figures v3: equation (81) corrected, thanks to the authors of 2504.16700

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