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Approximate Alignment in Two Higgs Doublet Model with Extra Yukawa Couplings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-08-29 v4

Abstract

With discovery of the 125 GeV boson h0h^0, the existence of a second doublet is very plausible. We show that the "alignment" phenomenon, that h0h^0 is found to resemble closely the Standard Model Higgs boson, may correspond to Higgs quartic couplings ηi\eta_i that are O(1){\cal O}(1) in strength. If the exotic bosons of the second doublet possess extra top Yukawa couplings, which are the least constrained by data, such a two Higgs doublet model could drive electroweak baryogenesis, as well as further "protect" the apparent alignment. The exotic Higgs bosons can be sub-TeV in mass while remaining well hidden so far, with broad parameter space for search at the Large Hadron Collider.

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@article{arxiv.1706.07694,
  title  = {Approximate Alignment in Two Higgs Doublet Model with Extra Yukawa Couplings},
  author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Mariko Kikuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07694},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Final version corresponding to acceptance by Euro. Phys. Lett

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