On the terms violating the custodial symmetry in multi-Higgs-doublet models

作者:Solberg M Aa*
来源:Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics , 2013, 40(6): 065001.
DOI:10.1088/0954-3899/40/6/065001

摘要

We prove that a generic multi-Higgs-doublet model (NHDM) must generally contain terms in the potential that violate custodial symmetry. This is done by showing that the O(4) violating terms of the NHDM potential cannot be excluded by imposing a symmetry on the NHDM Lagrangian. Hence we expect higher-order corrections to necessarily introduce such terms. We also note, in the case of custodially symmetric Higgs-quark couplings, that vacuum alignment will lead to up-down mass degeneration; this is not true if the vacua are not aligned.

  • 出版日期2013-6

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