https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4705-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
High-scale validity of a two-Higgs-doublet scenario: metastability included
Regional Centre for Accelerator-based Particle Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad, 211 019, India
* e-mail: nabarunc@hri.res.in
Received:
26
July
2016
Accepted:
19
February
2017
Published online:
10
March
2017
We identify regions in a Type-II two-Higgs-doublet model which correspond to a metastable electroweak vacuum with lifetime larger than the age of the universe. We analyse scenarios which retain perturbative unitarity up to grand unification and Planck scales. Each point in the parameter space is restricted using data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as flavour and precision electroweak constraints. We find that substantial regions of the parameter space are thus identified as corresponding to metastability, which complement the allowed regions for absolute stability, for top quark mass at the high as well as low end of its currently allowed range. Thus, a two-Higgs-doublet scenario with the electroweak vacuum, either stable or metastable, can sail through all the way up to the Planck scale without facing any contradiction.
© The Author(s), 2017
