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0
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
350 400 450 500 550 600
Re F
2A
X
E
cm
[GeV]
0
0.002
0.004
0.006
0.008
0.01
0.012
0.014
350 400 450 500 550 600
Im F
2A
X
E
cm
[GeV]
Fig. 1 Left panel: the real part of the top-quark EDF F
γ
2A
(solid, black)
and WDF F
Z
2A
(dashed, blue), evaluated with the couplings of Table 1
and neutral Higgs-bosonmasses m
1
= 125 GeV, m
2
= 1200 GeV, and
m
3
= 600 GeV, as a function of the c.m. energy. Right panel: the same
for the imaginary part of the top-quark EDF and WDF
Table 2 Values of the real and
imaginary parts of the top-quark
EDFandWDFfortwoc.m.
energies. Input parameters are as
in Fig. 1
√
s (GeV) Re F
γ
2A
Re F
Z
2A
Im F
γ
2A
Im F
Z
2A
380 8.1 ×10
−3
2.9 ×10
−3
1.3 ×10
−2
3.8 ×10
−3
500 −0.6 ×10
−3
0.7 ×10
−6
7.8 ×10
−3
2.2 ×10
−3
factors are listed in Table 2 for two c.m. energies that are
chosen for the simulations in Sects. 5–7.
In the kinematic range that we are interested in (
√
s 500
GeV) the imaginary parts of the EDF and WDF are rather
insensitive to the values of the heavy Higgs-boson masses,
as long as m
2,3
> 500 GeV. This is also the case for the
real parts of the form factors close to the t
¯
t threshold that are
dominated by the contribution from h
1
exchange. This term
falls off strongly with increasing c.m. energy. Moreover, at
c.m. energies
√
s 500 GeV the contributions from h
2
, h
3
to
the real parts of the form factors may no longer be negligible.
We find that the real parts of the EDF and WDF at
√
s = 500
GeV depend, for fixed Higgs-boson couplings, sensitively on
the masses of h
2
, h
3
, but do not exceed 10
−3
in magnitude
for the couplings of Table 1.
As mentioned above, the formulae of [22] apply to any
type of 2HDM where tree-level FCNC are absent. In fact,
the results shown in Fig. 1 and given in Table 2 apply also to
other types of 2HDM in the low tan β region; for instance,
to the type-I model where all right-chiral quarks and charged
leptons are coupled to the Higgs doublet Φ
2
only, or to
the so-called lepton specific model where the right-chiral
quarks (right-chiral charged leptons) are coupled to Φ
2
(Φ
1
)
only.
In summary, within the 2HDM the real (imaginary) part of
the top-quark electric dipole form factor F
γ
2A
can be as large
as ∼ 0.02 (∼ 0.01) in magnitude near the t
¯
t production
threshold, taking into account the present constraints from
LHC data.
3.2 The minimal supersymmetric SM extension
The Higgs sector of the MSSM corresponds to a type-II
2HDM. Supersymmetry (SUSY) forces the tree-level Higgs
potential V (Φ
1
,Φ
2
) of the MSSM to conserve CP. Nev-
ertheless, the MSSM contains in its general form many
CP-violating phases besides the KM phase, especially in
the supersymmetry-breaking terms of the model, including
phases of the complex Majorana mass terms of the neu-
tral gauginos and of the complex chargino and sfermion
mass matrices. Motivated by assumptions as regards SUSY
breaking at very high energies, one often puts constraints on
the SUSY-breaking terms, in particular on the CP-violating
phases, in order to restrict the number of unknown param-
eters of the model. Nevertheless, generic features of SUSY
CP violation remain. Unlike the case of Higgs-boson induced
one-loop EDMs, fermion EDMs generated at one-loop can
be large, also for u, d quarks and the electron. The exper-
imental upper bounds on the EDM of the neutron and of
atoms/molecules strongly constrain in particular the CP-
phases associated with the sfermion mass matrices of the
first and second generation, barring fine-tuned cancellations.
See, for instance, Ref. [41] for a review. However, the phases
of the sfermion mass matrices need not be flavour-universal.
For the top flavour the associated phase ϕ
˜
t
can still be of
order one. Often a common phase of the gaugino masses
is assumed. Using phase redefinitions of the fields in the
MSSM Lagrangian, one can choose for the parametriza-
tion of MSSM CP violation in the top-quark sector [42,43]
the phase ϕ
˜
t
, the corresponding b-flavour phase ϕ
˜
b
, and the
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