# Just a Scalar in THDM

## TL;DR

This paper explores a specific Two-Higgs-Doublet Model where one Higgs doublet has zero vacuum expectation value, analyzing its stability, mass spectrum, decay channels, and compatibility with experimental data, including potential signals in Higgs decay modes.

## Contribution

It introduces a variant of the THDM with a non-VEV Higgs doublet, analyzing its phenomenology, stability, and experimental constraints, highlighting possible light Higgs masses and decay signatures.

## Key findings

- Higgs bosons can be lighter than 300 GeV in this model.
- Certain decay channels exclude most solutions, but some SM-like scenarios remain viable.
- The model can explain muon g-2 discrepancies without conflicting with b→sγ constraints.

## Abstract

We review the THDM model in which one of the Higgs doublets does not develop a vacuum expectation value. In this case, the Higgs fields with zero VEV does not contribute to the physical masses of the SM particles, and hence, its interactions with the SM particles can have more freedom than in the case of usual considerations on the THDM models. We show that the stability of the Higgs potential minima can be maintained. All the Higgs boson masses are found lighter than about 300 GeV in the low scale spectrum when v_1=0. Such light mass scales are in the detectable regime, and hence, the SM predictions and the experimental results are essential to be applied in the analyses. Especially the decay channels; h-->W^+ W^- and h-->bb exclude most of the solutions, while it is still possible to realize a small region, which coincides with the SM predictions. We highlight that it is also possible to realize an excess in h--> gamma gamma decay channel, even one applies the constraints from the Higgs boson decays into W^+ W^- and bb. In addition, if one assumes H is the SM-like Higgs boson of mass about 125 GeV, the solutions with m_h <~ 125 GeV can be acceptable. In this case, the solutions can still be realized consistent with the SM predictions; however, an excess in H --> gamma gamma cannot be observed, while the implications for this channel in THDM can stay in the SM prediction rates at most. Even though the light masses of the Higgs bosons can be favored in resolution to discrepancy between the Standard Model and the experiment in the muon anomalous magnetic moment measurements, we find that it is not possible to accommodate such a resolution with BR(b --> s gamma) results simultaneously.