Lepton Flavor Specific Extended Higgs Model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a four-doublet Higgs model with lepton-specific couplings, analyzing its theoretical constraints and potential collider signatures, especially focusing on decays into electrons and muons.

Contribution

It presents a novel lepton flavor-specific extended Higgs model with detailed scalar potential, couplings, and phenomenological constraints, highlighting unique decay signatures into lighter leptons.

Findings

Lightest scalars can decay into electrons and muons.

Model remains consistent with current experimental constraints.

Distinctive collider signatures via vector boson fusion.

Abstract

In extended Higgs models, a discrete symmetry is needed in the quark sector to avoid tree-level flavor-changing neutral currents. However, this is not necessary the case in the lepton sector. We consider a model in which one Higgs couples to quarks and three others couple to the electron, muon and tau, respectively. This four-doublet model is presented with the full scalar potential and the gauge and Yukawa couplings. The constraints from boundedness, perturbativity and oblique parameters are incorporated as well as constraints from meson-antimeson mixing, radiative B-decays and the diphoton Higgs decay rate. We also consider bounds from searches for heavy neutral and charged scalars at the LHC. Since the Standard Model Higgs couplings match predictions very well, we focus on the alignment limit of the model. It is shown that for a wide range of parameters, the lightest additional scalar, pseudoscalar and charged scalar can have substantial decays into electrons and muons (in contrast to the usual leptonic decays into taus). An interesting signature in the neutral sector would be the production, through vector boson fusion, of a pair of scalars, each of which decays into an electron or muon pair.