Phenomenology in the Higgs Triplet Model with the A_4 Symmetry

TL;DR

This paper explores the phenomenology of charged Higgs bosons in an A_4-symmetric Higgs Triplet Model, highlighting their unique decay patterns and potential detectability at the LHC, along with neutrino interaction effects.

Contribution

It provides explicit mass eigenstates and flavor-specific decay predictions for charged Higgs bosons within an A_4-symmetric framework, a novel approach in this context.

Findings

Distinctive flavor structures in Higgs decays into leptons.

Potential for detection of certain Higgs bosons at the LHC below TeV scale.

Natural explanation for specific tau decay channels.

Abstract

We discuss the phenomenology of doubly and singly charged Higgs bosons (of SU(2)_L-triplet fields) in the simplest A_4-symmetric version of the Higgs Triplet Model. Mass eigenstates of these Higgs bosons are obtained explicitly from the Higgs potential. It is shown that their decays into a pair of leptons have unique flavor structures which can be tested at the LHC if some of their masses are below the TeV scale. Sizable decay rates for tau to bar(mu) e e and tau to bar(e) mu mu can be obtained naturally while other tau to l l' l'', mu to bar(e) e e, and l to l' gamma are almost forbidden in this model. Contributions of these Higgs bosons to the non-standard interactions of neutrinos are also considered.