Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2022)

Unitarity bounds for all symmetry-constrained 3HDMs

  • Miguel P. Bento,
  • Jorge C. Romão,
  • João P. Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)273
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 8
pp. 1 – 66

Abstract

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Abstract Models with three Higgs doublets (3HDM) are the source of much recent activity, for they are key components of many solutions to the problems of the Standard Model; from extra sources of CP violation to Dark Matter candidates. We compute explicitly the theoretical bounds for all symmetry-constrained 3HDM arising from the perturbative unitarity of two-to-two scattering amplitudes. In addition, we propose a method based on principal minors that foregoes diagonalization and which is preferable in all models (not only 3HDM) dealing with large scattering matrices.

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