2006/08/31 by A. Barroso, P. M. Ferreira, Rui Santos +3 · 61 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Charge (physics) #Higgs boson #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.74.085016
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 74(8) (American Physical Society) · 21 pages
arxiv created 2006/09/19 · openalex publication_date 2006/10/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We show that the vacuum structure of a generic multi-Higgs-doublet model shares several important features with the vacuum structure of the two and three Higgs-doublet model. In particular, one can still define the usual charge breaking, spontaneous CP breaking, and normal (charge and CP preserving) stationary points. We analyze the possibility of charge or spontaneous CP breaking by studying the relative depth of the potential in each of the possible stationary points.