Flavour constraints on multi-Higgs-doublet models: Yukawa alignment
Abstract
In multi-Higgs-doublet models, the alignment in flavour space of all Yukawa matrices coupling to a given right-handed fermion guarantees the absence of tree-level flavour-changing neutral couplings, while introducing new sources of CP violation. With N Higgs doublets (and no right-handed neutrinos) the Yukawa Lagrangian is characterized by the fermion masses, the CKM quark mixing matrix and 3(N-1) complex couplings. Quantum corrections break the alignment, generating a minimal-flavour-violation structure with flavour-blind phases. The aligned multi-Higgs-doublet models lead to a rich and viable phenomenology with an interesting hierarchy of flavour-changing neutral current effects, suppressing them in light-quark systems while allowing potentially relevant signals in heavy-quark transitions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1010.5217,
title = {Flavour constraints on multi-Higgs-doublet models: Yukawa alignment},
author = {Antonio Pich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5217},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures. Talk given in the "Third Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics" (Capri, 5-7 July 2010)