Higgs phenomenology in the Stealth Doublet Model [Elektronisk resurs]

• We analyze a model for the Higgs sector with two scalar doublets and a softly broken Z2 symmetry. One of the doublets breaks the electroweak symmetry and has tree-level Yukawa couplings to fermions. The other doublet has no vacuum expectation value and no tree-level couplings to fermions. Because the Z2 parity is broken the two doublets can mix, which leads to a distinct and novel phenomenology. This Stealth Doublet Model can be seen as a generalization of the Inert Doublet Model with a broken Z2 symmetry. We outline the model and present constraints from theory, electroweak precision tests and collider searches, including the recent observation of a Higgs boson at the LHC. The CP-odd scalar A and the charged scalar H± couple to fermions at one-loop level. We compute the decays of A and H± and in particular the one-loop decays A→ff¯, H±→ff¯′, H±→W±Z and H±→W±γ. We also describe how to calculate and renormalize such processes in our model. We find that if one of H± or A is the lightest scalar, H±→W±γ or A→bb¯ are typically their respective dominating decay channels. Otherwise, the dominating decays of H± and Aare into a scalar and a vector. Due to the absence of tree-level fermion couplings for H± and A, we consider pair production and associated production with vector bosons and scalars at the LHC. If the parameter space of the model that favors H±→W±γ is realized in Nature, we estimate that there should be a considerable amount of such events in the present LHC data. 

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Higgs boson

extended Higgs sector

Large Hadron Collider