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A search for flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark (t) and the Higgs boson (H) is presented. The search is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb$^{-1}$ recorded by the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 CMS Collaboration

Axion models with generation-dependent Peccei-Quinn charges can lead to flavor-changing neutral currents, thus motivating QCD axion searches at precision flavor experiments. We rigorously derive limits on the most general effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Jorge Martin Camalich , Maxim Pospelov , Pham Ngoc Hoa Vuong , Robert Ziegler , Jure Zupan

CP4 3HDM is a peculiar three-Higgs-doublet model in which a single symmetry leads to tight constraints on the scalar and Yukawa sectors. In this models, tree-level flavor-changing neutral couplings are unavoidable; however, as previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Duanyang Zhao , Igor P. Ivanov

A general two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) is adopted to study the signature of flavor changing neutral Higgs (FCNH) decay $\phi^0 \to t\bar{c}+\bar{t}c$, where $\phi^0$ could be a CP-even scalar ($H^0$) or a CP-odd pseudoscalar ($A^0$).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Baris Altunkaynak , Wei-Shu Hou , Chung Kao , Masaya Kohda , Brent McCoy

Large top quark flavor changing through neutral currents is expected by many extensions of the standard model. Direct and indirect searches for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) in the top quark decays to an up type quark (up,charm)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-14 Hoda Hesari , Hamzeh Khanpour , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions for a top quark $t$ decays into $Xq$ with $X$ represents a neutral gauge or Higgs boson, and $q$ a up- or charm-quark are highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM) due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 P. Q. Hung , Yu-Xiang Lin , Chrisna Setyo Nugroho , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We study flavor violating processes in the production or decay of a neutral pseudoscalar meson $P^0$ in the framework of a general two Higgs Doublet Model type III (2HDM-III). We use a version of the model where Yukawa interactions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 M. Gomez-Bock , G. Lopez-Castro , L. Lopez-Lozano , A. Rosado

Top flavour-changing neutral interactions with a light quark q=u,c and a gauge or Higgs boson are very suppressed within the Standard Model (SM), but can reach observable levels in many of its extensions. We review the possible size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

The Two Higgs Doublet model and its phenomenological implications are discussed. A brief survey on the present status of this model is given. In particular, we concentrate on the Two Higgs Doublet Model with Flavor Changing Neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodolfo A. Diaz

The possibility of detecting double flavor violating top quark transitions at future colliders is explored in a model-independent manner using the effective Lagrangian approach through the $t \to u_i\tau \mu$ ($u_i=u,c$) decays. A Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Fernandez , C. Pagliarone , F. Ramirez-Zavaleta , J. J. Toscano

We study the decay width and forward-backward asymmetry of the lepton pair for the inclusive decay b --> s \tau^+ \tau^- in the two Higgs doublet model with three level flavor changing neutral currents (model III) and analyse the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. O. Iltan , G. Turan

We analyse various flavour changing processes like $t\to hu,hc$, $h\to \tau e,\tau\mu$ as well as hadronic decays $h\to bs,bd$, in the framework of a class of two Higgs doublet models where there are flavour changing neutral scalar currents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 F. J. Botella , G. C. Branco , M. Nebot , M. N. Rebelo

In the lepton-specific version of two Higgs doublet models, a discrete symmetry is used to couple one Higgs, $\Phi_2$, to quarks and the other, $\Phi_1$, to leptons. The symmetry eliminates tree level flavor changing neutral currents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-15 Marco Merchand , Marc Sher

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC have reported the observation of a possible excess of events corresponding to a new particle $h$ with mass $\sim 125$ GeV that might be the long-sought Higgs boson, or something else. Decyphering the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Gianluca Blankenburg , John Ellis , Gino Isidori

We study a version of Two Higgs Doublet Models with non-standard flavor violation in the up quark sector. We find branching ratios for the rare top decays $t\to hc$ and $t\to hu$ that are within reach of current and future colliders, while…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-17 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Brian Maddock , Douglas Tuckler

A search for flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark (t) and the Higgs boson (H) is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision data collected in 2016-2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-22 CMS Collaboration

We propose a gauged two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) featuring an anomalous Peccei-Quinn symmetry, $U(1)_{PQ}$. Dangerous tree-level flavour-changing neutral currents, common in 2HDMs, are forbidden by the extra gauge symmetry, $U(1)_X$. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Alex G. Dias , Julio Leite , Diego S. V. Gonçalves

Models beyond the Standard Model with extra scalars have been highly motivated by the recent discovery of a Higgs boson. The Two Higgs Doublet Model Type III considers the most general case for the scalar potential, allowing mixing between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Ricardo Gaitán , Estela A. Garcés , Roberto Martinez , Jose Halim Montes de Oca

We study the flavour changing neutral Higgs boson decays that can be induced from genuine supersymmetric particles at the one-loop level and within the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We consider all the possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ana M. Curiel , Maria J. Herrero , David Temes

We present a general phenomenological analysis of a class of Two Higgs Doublet Models with Flavor Changing Neutral Currents arising at the tree level. The existing constraints mainly affect the couplings of the first two generations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Atwood , Laura Reina , Amarjit Soni