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Next-to-leading order unitarity fits in Two-Higgs-Doublet models with soft $\mathbb{Z}_2$ breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-01-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We fit the next-to-leading order unitarity conditions to the Two-Higgs-Doublet model with a softly broken Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry. In doing so, we alleviate the existing uncertainty on how to treat higher order corrections to quartic couplings of its Higgs potential. A simplified approach to implementing the next-to-leading order unitarity conditions is presented. These new bounds are then combined with all other relevant constraints, including the complete set of LHC Run I data. The upper 95%95\% bounds we find are 4.24.2 on the absolute values of the quartic couplings, and 235235 GeV (100100 GeV) for the mass degeneracies between the heavy Higgs particles in the type I (type II) scenario. In type II, we exclude an unbroken Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry with a probability of 95%95\%. All fits are performed using the open-source code HEPfit.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1609.01290,
  title  = {Next-to-leading order unitarity fits in Two-Higgs-Doublet models with soft $\mathbb{Z}_2$ breaking},
  author = {Vincenzo Cacchio and Debtosh Chowdhury and Otto Eberhardt and Christopher W. Murphy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01290},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

33 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables. Comments are welcome