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The Two Higgs Doublet of Type II facing flavour physics data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-11 v2

Abstract

We discuss tests of the charged Higgs sector of the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) of Type II in the light of recent flavour physics data. Particular attention is paid to recent measurement of purely leptonic decays of heavy-light mesons, which depart more or less significantly from the Standard Model (SM) predictions. We derive constraints on the parameters of the 2HDM type II from leptonic and semileptonic ΔF=1\Delta F=1 decays as well as loop processes (bsγb \to s \gamma, BBˉB\bar{B} mixing or ZbˉbZ\to\bar{b}b) sensitive to charged Higgs contributions. The outcome of this work is that while 2HDM Type II can fit individual observable through fine-tuning schemes, in a combined analysis it does not perform better than the SM by favouring a decoupling solution. Assuming that 2HDM Type II is realized in Nature, constraints on its parameters (mH+m_{H^+} and tanβ\tan \beta) are derived. A limit on the charged Higgs mass mH+>316  GeVm_{H^+} > 316 \; {\rm GeV} at 95%95\%~CL is obtained irrespective of the value of tanβ\tan \beta. This limit is dominated by the bsγb\rightarrow s \gamma branching ratio measurement. All results have been obtained with the \ckmfitter\ analysis package, featuring the frequentist statistical approach \rfit\ to handle theoretical uncertainties.

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@article{arxiv.0907.5135,
  title  = {The Two Higgs Doublet of Type II facing flavour physics data},
  author = {O. Deschamps and S. Descotes-Genon and S. Monteil and V. Niess and S. T'Jampens and V. Tisserand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5135},
  year   = {2010}
}

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34 pages, 12 figures, article