2012/11/30 by David López-Val, David Lopez-Val, Joan Solà +1 · 27 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Electroweak interaction #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Large Hadron Collider #Limit (mathematics) #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum mechanics #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Symmetry breaking #Technicolor #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2393-y
published in The European Physical Journal C 73(4) (Springer Science+Business Media) · LaTeX, 12 figures, 4 tables. Extended discussion, references added. Version accepted in Eur. Phys. J. C
arxiv created 2013/04/01 · openalex publication_date 2013/04/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
After the recent discovery of a Higgs-like boson particle at the CERN LHC-collider, it becomes more necessary than ever to prepare ourselves for identifying its standard or non-standard nature. The Electroweak parameter Delta r relating the values of the gauge boson masses [MW,MZ] and the Fermi constant [GF] is the traditional observable encoding high precision information of the electroweak physics at the quantum level. In this work we present a complete quantitative study of Delta r in the framework of the general (unconstrained) Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM). First of all we report on a systematic analysis of Delta r at the full one loop level in the general 2HDM, which to our knowledge was missing in the literature. Thereby we extract a theoretical prediction for the mass of the W-boson in this model, taking MZ, αem and GF as experimental inputs. We find typical corrections leading to mass shifts δMW ∼ 20-40 MeV which help to improve the agreement with the experimentally measured value, in a degree no less significant than in the MSSM case. In the second part of our study we extend our calculation beyond the mere one-loop order. We devise an effective Lagrangian approach that captures the dominant higher order quantum effects on delta rho (viz. that part of Delta r describing the breaking of the approximate SU(2) custodial symmetry) in the limit of large Higgs boson self-interactions. This limit constitutes a telltale property of the general 2HDM which is unmatched by e.g. the MSSM. Our conclusion is that the Electroweak precision program to be conducted at the LHC, and maybe at a future linear collider, can nicely complement the direct searches. Should these distinctive loop effects be eventually found they would signal a smoking gun hinting at non-standard Higgs physics.