Higgs alignment and the top quark
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-06-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
There is a surprising connection between the top quark and Higgs alignment in Gildener-Weinberg multi-Higgs doublet models. Were it not for the top quark and its large mass, the coupling of the 125 GeV Higgs boson to gauge bosons and fermions would be indistinguishable from those of the Standard Model Higgs. The top quark's coupling to a single Higgs doublet breaks this perfect alignment in higher orders of the Coleman-Weinberg loop expansion of the effective potential. But the effect is still small, , and probably experimentally inaccessible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.07242,
title = {Higgs alignment and the top quark},
author = {Estia J. Eichten and Kenneth Lane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07242},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
17 pages; Section 3 (Experimental Consequences) added; version to published in Physical Review D