| Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 5, March 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 51002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/51002 | |
| Published online | 19 February 2007 | |
A seesaw mechanism in the Higgs sector
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Corresponding authors: xcalmet@ulb.ac.be Josep.F.Oliver@uv.es
Received:
30
November
2006
Accepted:
7
January
2007
In this paper we revisit the seesaw Higgs mechanism. We show how a seesaw mechanism in a two Higgs doublets model can trigger the electroweak symmetry breaking if at least one of the eigenvalues of the squared-mass matrix is negative. We then consider two special cases of interest. In the decoupling scenario, there is only one scalar degree of freedom in the low-energy regime. In the degenerate scenario, all five degrees of freedom are in the low-energy regime and will lead to observables effects at the LHC. Furthermore, in that scenario, it is possible to impose a discrete symmetry between the doublets that makes the extra neutral degrees of freedom stable. These are thus viable dark-matter candidates. We find an interesting relation between the electroweak-symmetry-breaking mechanism and dark matter.
PACS: 11.15.Ex – Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries / 12.60.Fr – Extensions of electroweak Higgs sector / 95.35.+d – Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological)
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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