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Lepton collider signatures of dark CP violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-08 v2

Abstract

We study an extension of the Standard Model (SM) in which two copies of the SM Higgs doublet are added to the scalar sector. These extra doublets do not develop a vacuum expectation value, hence, they are \textit{inert}. This essentially leads to a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) with 2 inert and 1 active scalar doublets, which we denote as I(2+1)HDM. We allow for CP-violation in the \textit{inert} sector, where the lightest \textit{inert} state is protected from decaying to SM particles through the conservation of a Z2Z_2 symmetry, so that it is a Dark Matter (DM) candidate. For this scenario, we identify a smoking gun signature of dark CP-violation in the form of production thresholds of pairs of \textit{inert} neutral Higgs bosons at an e+ee^+e^- collider.

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@article{arxiv.1812.00820,
  title  = {Lepton collider signatures of dark CP violation},
  author = {A. Cordero-Cid and J. Hernández-Sánchez and V. Keus and S. Moretti and D. Rojas and D. Sokołowska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00820},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures, published version