Published October 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Top and Higgs flavor changing neutral couplings in two Higgs doublets model

  • 1. Departement de Mathematiques, Faculte des Sciences et Techniques, B.P 416 Tanger (Morocco)
  • 2. Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, P. O. Box 2-131 Hsinchu, Taiwan 300 (China)

Description

We study various channels of top and Higgs flavor changing neutral couplings in the two Higgs doublet model with natural flavor conservation (2HDM-I and 2HDM-II). We update known results about t→cγ,cZ,cg and comment on t→ch0. The decays t→ch0 as well as {h0,H0}→tc are sensitive both to the bottom Yukawa coupling as well as to the trilinear scalar couplings h0H+H- and H0H+H-. After imposing unitarity constraints as well as vacuum stability conditions on scalar sector parameters, in 2HDM-II we found that for large tanβ > or approx. 40 and rather light charged Higgs mass MH± > or approx. 150 GeV, the maximum values allowed for Br(t→ch0), Br(H0→tc), and Br(h0→tc) are: 8x10-5, 10-3, and 10-4 respectively. For charged Higgs mass in the range [200,300] GeV, which can accommodate B→Xsγ constraint if one takes into account large theoretical uncertainties, the branching ratio of both H0→tc and h0→tc can still be slightly larger than 10-5. For A0→tc, its branching ratio is smaller than ≅10-7 in both 2HDM-I and 2HDM-II. We study also the top-charm associated production at e+e- colliders and its γγ option as well as at muon colliders. It is found that the cross section of γγ→tc can be of the order 0.01→0.1 fb near threshold region, while the cross section of e+e-→tc is well below 10-2 fb. The situation is slightly better for muon colliders where a few fb cross section can be reached for large tanβ and low center-of-mass energy √(s) < or approx. 500 GeV

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 075016-075016.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society