Lepton specific two-Higgs-doublet model based on a $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry with dark matter
Takaaki Nomura, Prasenjit Sanyal

TL;DR
This paper proposes a lepton-specific two-Higgs-doublet model with an additional $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry, incorporating dark matter candidates and analyzing their phenomenological implications including collider and dark matter physics.
Contribution
It introduces a novel $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry-based lepton-specific 2HDM with anomaly cancellation, dark matter stability, and comprehensive phenomenological analysis.
Findings
Identifies viable parameter regions consistent with phenomenological constraints.
Analyzes the impact of the $Z'$ boson on collider physics.
Demonstrates dark matter candidate stability and interactions.
Abstract
We discuss a two Higgs doublet model with extra gauge symmetry where lepton specific (type-X) structure for Yukawa interactions is realized by charge assignment of fields under the . Extra charged leptons are introduced to cancel gauge anomaly associated with extra gauge symmetry. In addition, we introduce scalar fields as dark matter candidates to which we assign odd parity for guaranteeing stability of them. We then analyze phenomenology of the model such as scalar potential, muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment, collider physics associated with boson from , and dark matter physics. Carrying out numerical analysis we search for phenomenologically viable parameter region.
| Fields | |||||||||||||
| Parameters | BPI | BPII |
|---|---|---|
| 590 GeV | 766 GeV | |
| 362 GeV | 368 GeV | |
| 362 GeV | 368 GeV | |
| 283 GeV | 143 GeV | |
| 121 GeV | 449 GeV | |
| 971 GeV | 811 GeV | |
| 673 GeV | 915 GeV | |
| 954 GeV | 1143 GeV | |
| 2.8 | 13.8 | |
| rad | rad | |
| rad | 1.34 rad | |
| 1.55 rad | rad | |
| 0.042 | 0.053 | |
| 0.077 | 0.062 | |
| 0.018 | 0.041 |
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KIAS-P19042
Lepton specific two Higgs doublet model based on gauge symmetry with dark matter
Takaaki Nomura
School of Physics, KIAS, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea
Prasenjit Sanyal
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
Abstract
We discuss a two Higgs doublet model with extra gauge symmetry where lepton specific (type-X) structure for Yukawa interactions is realized by charge assignment of fields under the . Extra charged leptons are introduced to cancel gauge anomaly associated with extra gauge symmetry. In addition, we introduce scalar fields as dark matter candidates to which we assign odd parity for guaranteeing stability of them. We then analyze phenomenology of the model such as scalar potential, muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment, collider physics associated with boson from , and dark matter physics. Carrying out numerical analysis we search for phenomenologically viable parameter region.
I Introductions
The standard model (SM) of particle physics has been very successful to explain experimental results and its particle contents are confirmed completely by the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Although the SM is quite successful, there can be a new physics beyond the SM (BSM) accommodating with the experimental data and it is motivated by several issues such as existence of dark matter(DM) and non-zero mass of neutrinos which can not be explained within the SM. Furthermore the existence of new physics would induce interesting phenomenology such as flavor physics and new particle signatures at collider experiments.
One of the interesting extension of the SM is two Higgs doublet model (THDM) in which a second Higgs doublet is introduced. In general, THDM has flavor changing interactions through Yukawa interactions of both quarks and leptons, which are strongly constrained by various experiments searching for flavor violating processes. In many approaches softly broken symmetry is introduced to restrict Yukawa interactions to avoid flavor changing neutral current(FCNC). One can also apply an extra gauge symmetry to control Yukawa interactions associated with two Higgs doublets. In such a scenario rich phenomenology would be induced from scalar bosons from Higgs sector as well as boson from extra symmetry. In fact many works have been carried out in a scheme of THDM with extra symmetry motivated by several issues such as absence of FCNC Ko:2012hd , neutrino mass Cai:2018upp ; Bertuzzo:2018ftf ; Nomura:2017wxf ; Nomura:2017jxb ; Camargo:2018uzw ; Nomura:2017ohi , flavor physics Ko:2019tts ; Ko:2017quv ; DelleRose:2017xil ; Crivellin:2015lwa ; Bian:2017rpg , dark matter(DM) Camargo:2019ukv ; Ko:2015fxa ; Ko:2014uka ; Nomura:2019vqc ; Correia:2019pnn ; Correia:2019woz and collider physics Camargo:2018klg ; Ko:2013zsa ; Nomura:2017lsn . Also extra could be originated from string theory Olguin-Trejo:2019hxk .
In this work, we construct a model based on an extra gauge symmetry which can realize lepton specific (type-X) THDM. The type-X THDM is one of the interesting scenario in THDM in which one Higgs doublet only couples to quarks while the others only couples to leptons Cao:2009as . Interestingly one can obtain sizable contribution to muon anomalous magnetic moment (muon ) from the structure of Yukawa coupling where the deviation from the SM prediction is Davier:2010nc ; Hagiwara:2011af ; Davier:2017zfy ; Davier:2019can ;
[TABLE]
It is the deviation with a positive value, and recent theoretical analysis further indicates 3.7 deviation Keshavarzi:2018mgv . Moreover, several upcoming experiments such as Fermilab E989 e989 and J-PARC E34 jpark will provide the result with more precision in future. To explain the discrepancy a lot of studies have been carried out within type-X Broggio:2014mna ; Wang:2018hnw ; Cherchiglia:2017uwv ; Abe:2015oca ; Wang:2014sda ; Chun:2016hzs ; Li:2018aov ; Chun:2019oix , muon specific Abe:2017jqo and general (type-III) THDM Ilisie:2015tra ; Benbrik:2015evd . We then investigate muon in our model taking into account constraints from the SM Higgs measurements. In addition, we introduce a scalar dark matter (DM) candidate in our model which is stabilized by discrete symmetry and its interaction with muon can also contribute to muon . The relic density of DM is estimated to search for parameters accommodating with the observed value imposing constraint from direct detection experiments. We also discuss possibility of indirect detection experiments.
This paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we introduce our model and formulate mass spectrum and interactions. In Sec. III, we discuss phenomenology of the model such as constraints from scalar potential, muon , boson production at the LHC, and dark matter physics. Finally we give summary and discussion.
II Model setup
In this section, we introduce our model and formulate mass spectrum and interactions. This model has extra gauge symmetry and exotic charged leptons with charge are introduced to cancel gauge anomalies. In scalar sector, we introduce two Higgs doublets and whose charges are [math] and respectively, and complex SM singlet scalars , and with charge , and [math]. We also impose parity where , and are odd and the other fields are even, and neutral scalar and can be our DM candidate Baek:2018wuo . Here we consider two DM candidates and where the former has gauge interaction associated with and the other is gauge singlet. The full charge assignment of fields are summarized in Table 1. Scalar fields in our model are written as
[TABLE]
where , and and are VEVs of corresponding fields. We require not to develop VEV so that symmetry is not broken.
Here we show that our fermion contents satisfy the gauge and gravity anomaly free condition as follows
[TABLE]
where is the charge of the SM fermion , and the condition associated with is the same as the SM since doublet fermions do not have charge. This structure of anomaly cancellation is similar to right-handed fermion specific case Ko:2012hd ; Nomura:2017tih ; Nomura:2016emz where the extra charged lepton play a role of right-handed charged lepton in our case.
II.1 Scalar sector
Here we discuss scalar sector in the model formulating mass spectrum and corresponding mass eigenstates. The scalar potential is given by
[TABLE]
where we take the couplings to be real for simplicity. In addition we require invariance under phase transformation and to simplify the scalar potential, which is softly broken by the last term of the potential. The VEVs can be obtained by solving the condition . From the condition, we require the VEVs and parameters to satisfy
[TABLE]
Also to obtain vanishing VEV of , we require and couplings associated with to be positive.
After spontaneous symmetry breaking, we obtain mass matrix for charged scalar such that
[TABLE]
The mass matrix can be diagonalized as in the THDM and mass eigenstates are
[TABLE]
where , is Nambu-Goldstone(NG) boson absorbed by and is physical charged Higgs boson. The mass of charged Higgs boson is given by
[TABLE]
where .
The mass matrix for even and CP odd scalar bosons is obtained as
[TABLE]
We can diagonalize the mass matrix by rotating the basis as follows:
[TABLE]
where and are massless NG bosons and these degrees of freedom are absorbed by and bosons. The physical CP-odd scalar boson has non-zero mass of
[TABLE]
We thus find that becomes massless in the limit of .
The even and CP-even scalar sector has three physical degrees of freedom and the mass matrix is given by
[TABLE]
This mass matrix can be diagonalized by an orthogonal matrix with three Euler parameters which is written as
[TABLE]
and mass eigenstates are obtained such that
[TABLE]
We write parameters in scalar potential by physical masses and VEVs such that
[TABLE]
Here we formulate masses of odd scalar fields . For simplicity we assume and ignore - mixing. Then masse eigenvalues of them are given by
[TABLE]
where the real and imaginary part of have the same mass, and we write them as and . Here the mass degeneracy of real and imaginary part is due to the requirement of invariance under phase transformation and smallness of parameter in the scalar potential as we assumed above. Thus our DM is identified as complex scalar bosons.
II.2 Yukawa interactions
The Yukawa interactions in our model are controlled by gauge symmetry, and one obtains lepton specific (type-X) structure for two Higgs doublet scalars and terms associated with exotic charged leptons:
[TABLE]
where we omit flavor indices. We can derive the SM fermion masses the same as the THDM. In addition the masses of exotic leptons is given by
[TABLE]
Then rewriting scalar fields by mass eigenstates the Yukawa interactions become
[TABLE]
where indicates an element of CKM matrix. The coefficients associated with neutral scalar bosons, , are summarized in Table. 2 while interactions associated with charged Higgs are the same as the type-X THDM. In our model neutrino mass is generated as Dirac type and mass matrix is simply given by from Yukawa interaction Eq. (34). Note that neutrino in Eq. (36) corresponds to flavor eigenstate.
II.3 Gauge sector
Here we formulate mass eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates in our gauge sector 111In our analysis we ignore kinetic mixing between and gauge fields assuming its effect is negligibly small.. After symmetry breaking gauge bosons obtain masses from kinetic term of scalar fields
[TABLE]
where , and are gauge couplings associated with , and . The mass of boson is given by with mass eigenstate as in the SM. On the other hand mass matrix for neutral gauge bosons becomes such that
[TABLE]
Rotating by Weinberg angle , we identify massless photon field as
[TABLE]
where whose definition is the same as in the SM. Then we obtain mass matrix in the basis of such that
[TABLE]
where the elements are given by
[TABLE]
The mass eigenvalues are
[TABLE]
and the mass eigenstates are obtained such that
[TABLE]
The mixing between and is sufficiently small in our parameter region of interest and we ignore the effect of the mixing in the following analysis.
The gauge interactions among and fermions are given by
[TABLE]
We also obtain -scalar-scalar gauge interactions such that
[TABLE]
where . In addition the and interactions are given by
[TABLE]
Note that we reproduce THDM interaction in the limit of , and as and .
III Constraints and phenomenology
In this section, we discuss experimental constraints and phenomenologies in the model. We first investigate constraints from Higgs sector such as stability and perturbativity bound in the potential, in order to search for allowed parameter region. Then muon anomalous magnetic moment is estimated applying the allowed parameter sets. We also explore collider phenomenology and dark matter physics.
III.1 Constraints from Higgs sector
Here we discuss constraints on our parameters such as neutral scalar mixing , scalar boson masses and taking into account unitarity, stability and perturbativity bounds for the Higgs sector as well as the experimental measurements of SM Higgs coupling strength. The constraints from unitary and perturbativity are given by Bian:2017xzg
[TABLE]
where are the solution of the following equation
[TABLE]
We also obtain constraints from stability condition for scalar potential such that ElKaffas:2006gdt ; Grzadkowski:2009bt ; Drozd:2014yla
[TABLE]
Note that we do not consider couplings associated with since it does not develop VEV and we just assume that these couplings are positive values and not too large satisfying perturbativity and unitarity condition. Furthermore we impose constraint from the SM Higgs coupling measurements as follows
[TABLE]
where we have applied region of observed values in refs. ATLAS:2018doi ; Sirunyan:2018koj .
Here we scan out parameters to search for allowed parameter region, such that
[TABLE]
where we can take range of mixing angle in without loss of generality. The allowed parameter regions are shown in Fig. 1 where we take as a scanning parameter in left side plots and GeV is chosen in right side plots. We find that relations among mixing angle and are required to satisfy the constraints. Furthermore correlations of parameters and are preferred to obtain large . On the other hand value of is not strongly constrained and does not correlate with the other parameters. We can thus take as almost free parameter.
III.2 Muon
Here we estimate muon in our model. Firstly we have contributions from loop diagrams with even scalar bosons at one- and two-loop level. The two-loop Barr-Zee type diagrams can provide sizable contributions to muon and the formula is given in refs. Ilisie:2015tra ; Barr:1990vd . We find that sum of contributions to muon from loop diagrams associated with is at most when we apply allowed parameter region satisfying constraints discussed in previous subsection. This behavior is due to the negative contribution from two loop diagram associated with . We thus need the other contribution to explain muon in the model.
In fact, we have a contribution to muon from one loop diagram in which and propagate inside loop Nomura:2019btk ; Baek:2016kud . This contribution is estimated as
[TABLE]
where and . In Fig. 2, we show from - loop contribution as a function of Yukawa coupling where we assumed three generations of have the same mass and all has the same value. We also assume to avoid constraints from lepton flavor violation processes. Thus can be realized with sizable Yukawa coupling when the masses of and are around electroweak scale.
III.3 Collider physics
In this subsection, we discuss collider physics mainly focusing of boson production at the LHC. Our boson can be produced by process since right-handed quarks have charge. We estimate the cross section using MADGRAPH/MADEVENT 5 Alwall:2014hca , where the Feynman rules and relevant parameters in the model are implemented with FeynRules 2.0 Alloul:2013bka and the NNPDF23LO1 PDF Deans:2013mha is adopted. In the model can decay into SM quarks, scalar bosons and exotic charged lepton where branching ratio(BR) for is relatively larger than the other mode due to color degrees of freedom. Then the most stringent constraint comes from the LHC analysis searching for resonance when mode is kinematically allowed. When our decays into jets and the collider constraint is looser due to large SM background cross section. We can search such a boson by analyzing process with smaller number of SM backgrounds events. Chiang:2015ika ; Chiang:2014yva
In the left(right) plot of Fig. 3 we show as a function of for GeV. The estimated values of are compared with the upper bound from the analysis of LHC data Aaboud:2018mjh to search for allowed parameter region. We then obtain allowed parameter space on plane where we also scanned whose values are indicated by color gradient. It is found that large region is allowed since gauge coupling is small due to the relation . Furthermore dependence is small since - mixing is always very small in the parameter region. In addition we estimate forward backward asymmetry (AFB) for final state from decay which is defined by
[TABLE]
where indicates number of events with corresponding sign of for rapidities of top and anti-top quarks and . We find that is obtained in our model depending slightly on mass and it does not depend on the other parameters in the model.
III.4 Dark matter physics
Here we analyze DM physics such as relic density and constraint from direct/indirect detection experiments. In our model, DM candidates are odd scalar bosons and its interactions relevant to annihilation processes are given by
[TABLE]
where we ignored - mixing effect since it is negligibly small, and mass eigenstates for scalar fields are obtained applying Eqs. (7), (19) and (23). The scalar bosons and decay into SM particles via interactions given in Secs. II.1 and II.3. Note that decays into state for via the interaction with coupling so that only the lighter state among and is the DM. Then we estimate relic density of our DM for each scenario given below applying micrOMEGAs 4.3.5 Belanger:2014vza by implementing relevant interactions.
In general we have many DM annihilation processes which are described by different parameters in Eq. (79). Thus, in our analysis, we consider several scenarios focusing on some specific processes as follows:
(1) and so that and/or are dominant annihilation mode.
(2) and are sizable but where scalar portal processes are dominant.
(3) and but is sizable where we consider process via Yukawa interaction.
Note that in scenario (2) we will get the same behavior if we exchange role of and so that we only consider the case in which is DM. Under these scenarios, we estimate the relic density of DM.
In addition to the relic density, we need to take into account constraints from DM direct detection experiments. In our model DM can interact with nucleon through scalar and exchange when DM is . Then we can estimate the DM-nucleon scattering cross section, in non-relativistic limit, such that
[TABLE]
where is nucleon mass, and is effective Nucleon-Higgs coupling He:2011de ; Cheng:2012qr . The couplings are obtained from terms in second line of Eq. (79) such that
[TABLE]
In our numerical analysis below, we adopt micrOMEGAs 4.3.5 in estimating and the experimental constraints are imposed Aprile:2018dbl . When DM is only scalar mediating interaction contribute to DM-nucleon scattering where we can obtain the contribution by exchanging to for couplings in Eq. (81).
We perform parameter scan for each scenarios to search for parameter region realizing observed relic density of DM. Firstly we set following parameter ranges for all scenarios:
[TABLE]
where the range of is chosen as indicated by the constraints from scalar sector discussed above. The other parameters are set for scenario (1) as
[TABLE]
In addition, we impose LHC constraint on parameter space discussed in the previous section and we scan these values within allowed region. For scenario (2), we chose
[TABLE]
For scenario (3), we chose
[TABLE]
Note that we assume and masses are not degenerated, and co-annihilation processes are not taken into account in relic density calculation.
In Fig. 5, we show allowed parameter region giving relic density, , in scenario (1) where horizontal(vertical) axis corresponds to and color gradient indicate the value of . It is found that the observed relic density can be obtained around since the annihilation cross section is enhanced by resonant effect Griest:1990kh ; Ibe:2008ye ; Nayak:2017dwg ; Pozzo:2018anw ; Athron:2018ipf . We also show allowed parameter region for scenario (2) in Fig. 6 where horizontal(vertical) axis indicates and color gradient shows . In this case we obtain allowed region for (or ) since the relic density is explained by the process . In addition, the allowed parameter region for scenario (3) is shown in Fig. 7 where horizontal(vertical) axis indicates and color gradient shows . We find that required values of Yukawa couplings are scale which is also required to obtain sizable .
Finally we comment on possibility of indirect detection of our DM. For each scenario above, DM pair annihilates mainly as follows: in scenario (1) or ; in scenario (2) or where and indicate neutral scalar and any scalar bosons; in scenario (3) where is the SM lepton. Then gamma-ray search gives the strongest constraint on the annihilation cross section by Fermi-LAT observation Hoof:2018hyn ; Fermi-LAT:2016uux . For scenario (3), current DM annihilation is small since the cross section is suppressed by DM velocity since it is P-wave dominant process. We thus estimate DM annihilation cross section in current universe for scenario (1) and (2) using micrOMEGAs 4.3.5. In Fig. 8 and 9, we respectively show the DM annihilation cross section in the current universe for scenario (1) and (2). We find that the cross section in scenario (1) is smaller than that in scenario (2) since DM-DM- coupling include derivative and the cross section is suppressed by momentum factor. Therefore the scenario (2) is the most sensitive case for indirect detection where the shown parameter region is still allowed by the current measurements Hoof:2018hyn ; Fermi-LAT:2016uux , and it can be tested by in future data. For illustration, we also estimate spectrum of -ray from DM annihilation in scenario (2) where we adopt two benchmark points(BPs) given in Table 3 and use micrOMEGAs. The spectrum for BP1 and BP2 are shown in left and right plot of Fig. 10 where we applied three angular regions characterized by galactic latitude and longitude . We find that has broad range and its value is larger for smaller energy region since -ray comes from radiation from charged particle in final states in DM annihilation.
IV Summary and Conclusions
We have constructed a two Higgs doublet model with extra gauge symmetry in which lepton specific (type-X) structure is realized by charge assignment of Higgs doublets, quarks and leptons. In addition exotic charged leptons are also introduced to cancel gauge anomalies. We have also introduced discrete symmetry under which exotic charged leptons have odd parity, in order to restrict exotic charged lepton interactions. Furthermore the SM singlet scalars and with odd parity are added as our dark matter candidate where is charged under while is not charged.
We analyzed scalar sector formulating mass eigenstates and relation among parameters in the scalar potential. Then allowed parameter regain is explored by investigating constraints from scalar sector such as stability and peturbativity bound in the potential. We have also estimated muon applying the allowed parameter sets. It has been found that the contributions from loop diagrams with even scalar bosons can not be sizable to explain muon discrepancy. To explain muon we should rely on contribution from loop diagrams with odd particle and it can give sufficiently large muon with sizable Yukawa coupling associated with exotic leptons and dark matter.
The collider physics has been also discussed focusing on boson production at the LHC. Our boson has leptophobic interactions and process provides the strongest constraint if mass is heavier than . We have estimated the production cross section and discussed its constraints. In addition we have discussed asymmetry for the process.
Finally we have analyze dark matter physics such as relic density and constraint from direct/indirect detection experiments. In our analysis, we have considered several scenarios: (1) DM is and interaction is dominant, (2) DM is (or ) and scalar portal interaction is dominant, (3) DM is and Yukawa interaction with exotic leptons is dominant. Then allowed parameter region for each case have been searched for taking into account observed relic density and direct detection constraints. We then find all the cases can realize the observed relic density by choosing parameters relevantly. In addition we have discussed possibility of indirect detection estimating DM annihilation cross section at the current universe. It has been shown that scenario (2) is the most sensitive to indirect detection and will be tested in future measurements.
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