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Vacuum alignment in a composite 2HDM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-02-20 v2

Abstract

We study in detail the vacuum structure of a composite two Higgs doublet model based on a minimal underlying theory with 3 Dirac fermions in pseudo-real representations of the condensing gauge interactions, leading to the SU(6)/Sp(6) symmetry breaking pattern. We find that, independently on the source of top mass, the most general CP-conserving vacuum is characterised by three non-vanishing angles. A special case occurs if the Yukawas are aligned, leading to a single angle. In the latter case, a Dark Matter candidate arises, protected by a global U(1) symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1805.07619,
  title  = {Vacuum alignment in a composite 2HDM},
  author = {Chengfeng Cai and Giacomo Cacciapaglia and Hong-Hao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07619},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

26 pages plus appendices, 7 figures. v2: discussion of Direct Detection added. Matches JHEP published version

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