https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10528-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Constraining the
structure of Higgs-fermion couplings with a global LHC fit, the electron EDM and baryogenesis
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Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5720 South Ellis Avenue, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA
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CERN, Department of Theoretical Physics, 1211, Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstraße 2, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, 38116, Braunschweig, Germany
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Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM/CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937, Cologne, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Nußallee 12, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
Received:
7
April
2022
Accepted:
16
June
2022
Published online:
10
July
2022
violation in the Higgs couplings to fermions is an intriguing, but not yet extensively explored possibility. We use inclusive and differential LHC Higgs boson measurements to fit the
structure of the Higgs Yukawa couplings. Starting with simple effective models featuring
violation in a single Higgs–fermion coupling, we probe well-motivated models with up to nine free parameters. We also investigate the complementarity of LHC constraints with the electron electric dipole moment bound, taking into account the possibility of a modified electron Yukawa coupling, and assess to which extent
violation in the Higgs–fermion couplings can contribute to the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. Even after including the recent analysis of angular correlations in
decays, we find that a complex tau Yukawa coupling alone may be able to account for the observed baryon asymmetry, but with large uncertainties in the baryogenesis calculation. A combination of complex top and bottom quark Yukawa couplings yields a result four times larger than the sum of their separate contributions, but remains insufficient to account for the observed baryon asymmetry.
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