Physics Letters B 790 (2019) 589–594
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Yukawa unification with four Higgs doublets in supersymmetric GUT
Bhaskar Dutta
a
, Yukihiro Mimura
b,c,∗
a
Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
b
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
c
Institute of Science and Engineering, Shimane University, Matsue 690-8504, Japan
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
26 October 2018
Received
in revised form 7 January 2019
Accepted
11 January 2019
Available
online 7 February 2019
Editor:
M. Cveti
ˇ
c
Keywords:
SUSY
GUT
Coupling
unification
We discuss the Yukawa coupling unification, which can emerge in the grand unified theory, in the context
of scenarios with more than one pair of Higgs doublet since the current LHC constraint has become a
problem for the Yukawa unification scenarios with just one pair of Higgs doublet. More than one pair of
Higgs doublets can easily arise in missing partner mechanism which solves the doublet-triplet splitting
problem. In such a scenario, the Yukawa unification occurs at a medium tan β value, e.g., ∼ 30, which
corresponds to much smaller threshold corrections compared to usual large tan β scenario for t − b − τ
unification in the context of SO(10) and b − τ unification in the context of SU(5) models. Further, we
show that an additional Higgs doublet pair lowers the sensitivity of the radiative symmetry breaking of
the electroweak vacuum.
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1. Introduction
The Standard Model (SM) is well established to describe the
physics below the weak scale, and the SM particle content is
complete after the discovery of the Higgs boson whose mass is
125 GeV. However, 27% abundance of the universe, origin of the
electroweak scale, neutrino masses etc. are not explained in the
SM. The minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), one of
the most elegant extension of the SM, with origin in a grand uni-
fied
model, e.g., SO(10) [1], has answers for all these puzzles.
However,
there is no evidence of supersymmetry (SUSY) at the
LHC so far and this has generated constraints on the colored SUSY
masses, e.g., squarks, gluino masses need to be ≥ 2TeV [2,3]. Sim-
ilarly,
the lower bounds on non-colored SUSY masses have been
kept on increasing. This situation has impacts on scenarios with
predictions for lighter SUSY masses. One such example is a sce-
nario
which possesses unification of third generation Yukawa cou-
plings
motivated by the grand unified theories [4–6]. This scenario
is running into difficulty with the current LHC constraints on the
sparticle masses [7–9]. Since the unification of third generation
Yukawa coupling can emerge in the context of minimal SO(10)
unification scenarios [10], one wonders whether there is a way to
circumvent this problem.
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: mimura@riko.shimane-u.ac.jp (Y. Mimura).
In addition, the little hierarchy is becoming more fine-tuned
with the non-observation of SUSY. Since the SUSY breaking scale
(Q
S
) associated with stop mass is moving up, it becomes closer to
the symmetry breaking scale (Q
0
) where the Higgs squared mass
turns negative by renormalization group equation (RGE). Q
S
is a
dimensionful parameter while the smallness of Q
0
compared to
the Planck scale is due to dimensionless parameters. The closeness
of these two unrelated scales defines the fine tuning of the lit-
tle
hierarchy which is elevating with the non-observation of SUSY
particles [11–16].
Both
problems seem to be ingrained in the choice of number of
Higgs doublets in the low energy theory.
1
In the context of SO(10)
or SU(5) GUT models, more than one pair of Higgs doublets may
exist in the full theory. The light pair of doublet arises by choosing
smaller mass for one of the higher dimensional Higgs representa-
tions
in the missing partner doublet-triplet splitting mechanism.
However, more than one pair can easily be made light as well.
We consider such a scenario and show that both problems can be
solved, i.e., (i) Yukawa unification and (ii) less fine tuning in lit-
tle
hierarchy can be achieved in the context of 4 Higgs doublet
(4HD) SUSY models arising from SO(10) or SU(5). We show that
the Yukawa coupling unification can be realized for lower tan β,
for which the threshold corrections are quite small.
1
The phenomenological implications of the multi-pair of Higgs doublets in the
low energy SUSY models are discussed in [17,18].
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