Repository logo

Structure of potentials with N higgs doublets

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Advisor

Coadvisor

Graduate program

Undergraduate course

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc
American Physical Society (APS)

Type

Article

Access right

Acesso abertoAcesso Aberto

Abstract

Extensions of the standard model with N Higgs doublets are simple extensions presenting a rich mathematical structure. An underlying Minkowski structure emerges from the study of both variable space and parameter space. The former can be completely parametrized in terms of two future lightlike Minkowski vectors with spatial parts forming an angle whose cosine is -(N-1)(-1). For the parameter space, the Minkowski parametrization enables one to impose sufficient conditions for bounded below potentials, characterize certain classes of local minima, and distinguish charge breaking vacua from neutral vacua. A particular class of neutral minima presents a degenerate mass spectrum for the physical charged Higgs bosons.

Description

Keywords

Language

English

Citation

Physical Review D. College Pk: Amer Physical Soc, v. 76, n. 5, 11 p., 2007.

Related itens

Sponsors

Units

Item type:Unit,
São Paulo, Instituto de Física Teórica - IFT
IFT
Campus: São Paulo

Departments

Undergraduate courses

Graduate programs