Genuine Extra Yukawas from Extra Higgs, Implications

TL;DR

This paper explores how a second Higgs doublet with extra Yukawa couplings can explain baryon asymmetry, Higgs properties, and flavor-changing effects, with implications for LHC searches involving top quarks.

Contribution

It demonstrates that extra Yukawa couplings in a two-Higgs-doublet model can simultaneously account for baryogenesis, Higgs alignment, and flavor constraints, providing testable LHC signatures.

Findings

BAU can be explained by $ ho_{tt} o { m O}(1)$.

Higgs alignment is naturally achieved with $ ho_{ij}$ couplings.

LHC processes like $pp o ttar c$, $ttar t$ are promising probes.

Abstract

With a second Higgs doublet, extra Yukawa couplings $\rho_{ij}$ generally exist. Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) can be accounted for by $\rho_{tt} \sim {\cal O}(1)$, with first order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) arising from ${\cal O}(1)$ Higgs quartic couplings. The latter can explain why the observed $h(125)$ boson so resembles the Standard Model (SM) Higgs: with coupling $\eta_6 \sim{\cal O}(1)$ for two-doublet mixing, the $H$--$h$ mixing angle $\cos\gamma \cong -\eta_6 v^2/(m_H^2 - m_h^2)$ is suppressed by the $CP$-even boson mass splitting $m_H^2 - m_h^2 > {\rm few}\ v^2$. The approximate alignment, together with the fermion mass-mixing pattern, controls FCNC Higgs effects at low energy. The picture can be probed by $pp \to tt\bar c$, $tt\bar t$, i.e. same-sign top and triple-top processes at the LHC.