Physics Letters B 742 (2015) 347–352
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Analysis of the quark sector in the 2HDM with a four-zero Yukawa
texture using the most recent data on the CKM matrix
O. Félix-Beltrán
a
, F. González-Canales
a,b
, J. Hernández-Sánchez
a,c,∗
, S. Moretti
d,e
,
R. Noriega-Papaqui
c,f
, A. Rosado
g
a
Facultad de Ciencias de la Electrónica, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 542, C.P. 72570 Puebla, Pue., Mexico
b
Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC – Universidad de Valencia), Spain
c
Dual C-P Institute of High Energy Physics, Mexico
d
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
e
Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
f
Área Académica de Matemáticas y Física, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carr. Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5, C.P. 42184, Pachuca, Hgo., Mexico
g
Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal J-48, C.P. 72570 Puebla, Pue., Mexico
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
10 December 2013
Received
in revised form 20 October 2014
Accepted
2 February 2015
Available
online 4 February 2015
Editor:
B. Grinstein
Keywords:
Higgs
physics
Flavour
physics
In this Letter we analyse, in the context of the general 2-Higgs Doublet Model, the structure of the
Yukawa matrices,
Y
q
1
,2
, by assuming a four-zero texture ansatz for their definition. In this framework, we
obtain compact expressions for
Y
q
1
,2
, which are reduced to the Cheng and Sher ansatz with the difference
that they are obtained naturally as a direct consequence of the invariants of the fermion mass matrices.
Furthermore, in order to avoid large flavour violating effects coming from charged Higgs exchange, we
consider the main flavour constraints on the off-diagonal terms of Yukawa texture
χ
q
j
kl
(k = l). We
perform a χ
2
-fit based on current experimental data on the quark masses and the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–
Maskawa
mixing matrix V
CKM
. Hence, we obtain the allowed ranges for the parameters
Y
q
1
,2
at 1σ for
several values of tan β. The results are in complete agreement with the bounds obtained taking into
account constraints on Flavour Changing Neutral Currents reported in the literature.
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1. Introduction
Now that a Higgs particle has been discovered at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) [1–3], with properties in very good accor-
dance
with the minimal version of Standard Model (SM) [4–6], it
becomes important to look for extensions of the Higgs sector be-
yond
the SM structure that contain a neutral Higgs boson similar
to the one found at the CERN machine. One of the most restric-
tive
experimental results on extensions of the SM is that Flavour
Changing Neutral Currents (FCNCs) must be controlled. The highly
experimental suppression for FCNCs should be a test for models
with more than one Higgs multiplet. In particular, in the 2-Higgs
Doublet Model (2HDM) [7–9], FCNCs could be avoided through a
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
addresses: olga_flix@ece.buap.mx (O. Félix-Beltrán),
felixfcoglz@gmail.com (F. González-Canales), jaime.hernandez@correo.buap.mx
(J. Hernández-Sánchez),
s.moretti@soton.ac.uk (S. Moretti), rnoriega@uaeh.edu.mx
(R. Noriega-Papaqui),
rosado@ifuap.buap.mx (A. Rosado).
discrete symmetry Z
2
. It is well known that there are several ver-
sions
of this model, known as Type I, II, X and Y (2HDM-I [10,
11],
2HDM-II [12], 2HDM-X and 2HDM-Y [13–18]) or inert [19–22].
The most general version of the 2HDM contains non-diagonal
fermionic couplings in the scalar sector implying the generation
of unwanted FCNCs. Different ways to suppress FCNCs have been
developed, giving rise to a variety of specific implementations of
the 2HDM [23–27]. In particular, as it is done in Ref. [28], it is
possible to analyse the Yukawa matrices through the quark sector
phenomenology. The Cheng and Sher ansatz [29] has been suc-
cessfully
used to describe the Yukawa couplings. Several Yukawa
textures proposed in literature [30,31] have yielded the right de-
scription
of the Yukawa couplings depending on fermion masses.
In
this paper, we are interested in the Yukawa sector in the
context of the general version of the 2HDM considering a four-
zero
texture fermionic mass matrix [30,31]. This Yukawa texture
has been studied in Refs. [32–36], which obtained interesting phe-
nomenological
results in both charged and neutral Higgs sectors.
In this framework, we propose an alternative way to determine
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SCOAP
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