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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

In this paper, we focus on the supersymmetric model with left-right (LR) symmetry, that is especially proposed in our previous work [1]. In this model, there are four Higgs doublets in order to realize the Standard Model (SM) fermion masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Syuhei Iguro , Junichiro Kawamura , Yuji Omura , Yoshihiro Shigekami

CP invariance is a very attractive solution to the strong CP problem in QCD. This solution requires the vanishing ${\rm arg}\,[{\rm det}\, M_d\, {\rm det} M_u]$, where the $M_d$ and $M_u$ are the mass matrices for the down- and up-type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Morimitsu Tanimoto , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

There is a natural solution to the strong CP problem in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model if it arises from a parity symmetric theory which is spontaneously broken to MSSM at Planck, GUT or intermediate scales. The strong CP phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ravi Kuchimanchi

We propose a Three Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) that goes beyond natural flavor conservation and in which each of the three Higgs doublets couples mainly to a single generation of fermions via non-standard Yukawa structures. A hierarchy in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-24 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Kevin Toner

I study many higgs doublet supersymmetric model with spontaneous CP violation. The damaging flavor changing interactions and large CP violation are brought under control simultaneously by an approximate PQ symmetry. I relate the smallness…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrija Rasin

We discuss a simple model, based on the gauge group ${\rm SU}(3)_C\otimes {\rm SU}(2)_L \otimes \text{U}(1)_Y\otimes \text{U}(1)_R$, where the Nelson-Barr solution to the strong CP problem is implemented. This model automatically provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Pavel Fileviez Perez , Clara Murgui , Mark B. Wise

We present a solution to the strong CP problem based on spontaneous CP violation and discrete family symmetries. The model predicts in a natural way the almost right-angled quark unitarity triangle angle ($\alpha \simeq 90^\circ$) by making…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-27 Stefan Antusch , Martin Holthausen , Michael A. Schmidt , Martin Spinrath

We use the invariance of physical picture under a change of Lagrangian, the reparametrization invariance in the space of Lagrangians and its particular case -- the rephrasing invariance, for analysis of the two-Higgs-doublet extension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Ilya F. Ginzburg , Maria Krawczyk

Flavor violating interactions of the Higgs boson are a generic feature of models with extended electroweak symmetry breaking sectors. Here, we investigate CP violation in these interactions, which can arise from interference of tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Joachim Kopp , Marco Nardecchia

We consider the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and determine the range of parameters for which CP violation and Flavor Changing Neutral Current effects are naturally small. It corresponds to small values of the mass parameter m_{12}^2, describing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya F. Ginzburg , Maria Krawczyk , Per Osland

In minimal left-right symmetric theories, the requirement of parity invariance allows only one complex phase in the Higgs potential and one in the Yukawa couplings, leading to a two-phase theory with both spontaneous and explicit CP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yue Zhang , Haipeng An , Xiangdong Ji , Rabindra N. Mohapatra

We put forward a two-Higgs-doublet model, furnished with a $Z_3$ symmetry, wherein $CP$ is conserved in the dimension-four terms of the Lagrangian and is softly broken in the scalar potential. The new particles of our model are one neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 P. M. Ferreira , L. Lavoura

We present a supersymmetric solution to the strong CP problem based on spontaneous CP violation which simultaneously addresses the affects coming from supersymmetry breaking. The generated CP violating phase is communicated to the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-09 Jason Evans , Chengcheng Han , Tsutomu T. Yanagida , Norimi Yokozaki

Scalar sectors with several Higgs doublets, a CP invariant potential, and a CP violating vacuum, possess a mass spectrum in which, unexpectedly, new scalars cannot have masses much larger than the electroweak scale once perturbativity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 José M. Camacho , Carlos Miró , Miguel Nebot , Daniel Queiroz , Tomás Tobarra

The flavor protection in composite Higgs models with partial compositeness is known to be insufficient. We explore the possibility to alleviate the tension with CP odd observables by assuming that flavor or CP are symmetries of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Michele Redi , Andreas Weiler

Assuming CP violation arises solely through the Higgs potential, we develop the most general two-Higgs doublet model. There is no discrete symmetry that distinguishes the two Higgs bosons. It is assumed that an approximate global family…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Yue-Liang Wu , Lincoln Wolfenstein

Three possible strategies have been advocated to solve the strong CP problem. The first is the axion, a dynamical mechanism that relaxes any initial value of the CP violating angle $\bar{\theta}$ to zero. The second is the imposition of new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-14 David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

A recent work combined the popular left-right parity (LR) and Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetries to explain the alignment in quark masses. Since axions may not exist, we break PQ softly and discover a new solution to the strong CP problem.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-04 Ravi Kuchimanchi

We propose a model of spontaneous CP violation to address the strong CP problem in warped extra dimensions that relies on sequestering flavor and CP violation. We assume that brane-localized Higgs Yukawa interactions respect a U(3) flavor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-06 Clifford Cheung , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Lisa Randall