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Flavour alignment in multi-Higgs-doublet models

Ana PeñuelasAntonio Pich

subject

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsHiggs PhysicsHigh Energy Physics::LatticeFlavourFOS: Physical sciences01 natural sciencessymbols.namesakeHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)0103 physical scienceslcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity010306 general physicsMultipletQuantumPhysicsNeutral current010308 nuclear & particles physicsElectroweak interactionHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyYukawa potentialHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyBeyond Standard ModelsymbolsHiggs bosonlcsh:QC770-798Higgs mechanism

description

Extended electroweak scalar sectors containing several doublet multiplets require flavour-aligned Yukawa matrices to prevent the appearance at tree level of unwanted flavour- changing neutral-current transitions. We analyse the misalignment induced by one-loop quantum corrections and explore possible generalizations of the alignment condition and their compatibility with current experimental constraints. The hypothesis of flavour alignment at a high scale turns out to be consistent with all known phenomenological tests.

10.1007/jhep12(2017)084http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)084