Compactified 2HDM under the Non-SUSY AdS instability conjecture

TL;DR

This paper explores how extra-dimensional effects and quantum gravity constraints shape the Higgs sector in a 2HDM, deriving bounds on heavy Higgs masses to ensure vacuum stability under the non-SUSY AdS instability conjecture.

Contribution

It introduces a compactified 2HDM framework incorporating radion effects and derives a model-independent lower bound on heavy Higgs masses based on quantum gravity conjectures.

Findings

Heavy Higgs masses must be greater than approximately 680 GeV.

Radion potential admits a stable minimum with near-zero vacuum energy.

Swampland constraints lead to testable predictions for extended Higgs sectors.

Abstract

We investigate how extra-dimensional dynamics influence the Higgs sector phenomenology by compactifying a Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) coupled to 4D gravity on a circle $S^{1}$. The resulting effective potential includes tree-level 2HDM interactions, one-loop Coleman-Weinberg corrections from the Kaluza-Klein towers, and a radion contribution inspired by the Goldberger-Wise mechanism. We derive the full 3D effective action and show that, for the observed Higgs mass $m_{h}=125$ GeV, the radion potential admits a stable minimum, near-zero vacuum energy. By imposing the non-supersymmetric AdS instability conjecture as a quantum gravity consistency requirement, we obtain a model independent bound on the heavy Higgs sector, finding that the additional scalar states must satisfy $M_{H}\gtrsim 680$ GeV to avoid an unstable AdS$_{3}$ vacuum. Our results demonstrate how Swampland inspired constraints can yield sharp, phenomenologically testable predictions for extended Higgs sectors.