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Top and Higgs Flavor Changing Neutral Couplings in two Higgs Doublets Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We study various channels of top and Higgs Flavor Changing Neutral Couplings (FCNC) in the two Higgs doublet Model with natural flavor conservation (2HDM-I and 2HDM-II). We update known results about t\to c \gamma, c Z, cg and comment on t\to c h0. The decays tch0t\to c h0 as well as {h0,H0}\to \bar{t}c are sensitive both to the bottom Yukawa coupling as well as to the trilinear scalar couplings h0H+H- and H0H+H-. After imposing unitarity constraints as well as vacuum stability conditions on scalar sector parameters, in 2HDM-II we found that for large tanβ\ga40\tan\beta\ga 40 and rather light charged Higgs mass MH+\la150M_{H+}\la 150 GeV, the maximum values allowed for Br(t\to c h0), {\rm Br}(H0\to \bar{t}c) and {\rm Br}(h0\to \bar{t}c) are: 8×1058\times 10^{-5}, 10310^{-3} and 10410^{-4} respectively. For charged Higgs mass in the range [200,300] GeV, which can accommodate BXsγB\to X_s\gamma constraint if one takes into account large theoretical uncertainties, the branching ratio of both H0\to\bar{t}c and h0\to \bar{t}c can still be slightly larger than 10510^{-5}. For A0\to \bar{t}c, its branching ratio is smaller than 107\approx 10^{-7} in both 2HDM-I and 2HDM-II. We study also the top-charm associated production at e+e- colliders and its \gamma\gamma option as well as at muon colliders. It is found that the cross section of \gamma\gamma\to \bar{t}c can be of the order 0.010.10.01\to 0.1 fb near threshold region, while the cross section of e+e-\to \bar{t}c is well below 10210^{-2} fb. The situation is slightly better for muon colliders where a few fb cross section can be reached for large \tan\beta and low center of mass energy \sqrt{s}\la 500 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0510107,
  title  = {Top and Higgs Flavor Changing Neutral Couplings in two Higgs Doublets Model},
  author = {Abdesslam Arhrib},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0510107},
  year   = {2009}
}

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24 pages,9 eps figures, references added, to appear in PRD