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Perturbative Analysis of the Electron EDM and CP Violation in Two Higgs Doublet Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-21 v3 Atomic Physics

Abstract

I consider a general two Higgs doublet model with CP violation. I give a perturbative expansion for the mass eigenstates in terms of the small CP violating phase. I use these analytical expressions to show that O(102)\mathcal{O}(10^{-2}) CP violation is allowed by the experimental bounds on the electron electric dipole momnent in some regions of the parameter space. These regions also include parameters that are expected to give a strongly first order electroweak phase transition required for electroweak baryogenesis. I also comment on how to incorporate the CP violation into the searches for a strongly first order electroweak phase transition which could explain the matter/anti-matter asymmetry in the universe.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6790,
  title  = {Perturbative Analysis of the Electron EDM and CP Violation in Two Higgs Doublet Models},
  author = {Seyda Ipek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6790},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures, journal ref added