A Concise Review on Some Higgs-Related New Physics Models in Light of Current Experiments

Abstract

The Higgs boson may serve as a portal to new physics beyond the standard model (BSM), which is implied by the theoretical naturalness or experimental anomalies. This review aims to briefly survey some typical Higgs-related BSM models. First, for the theories to solve the hierarchy problem, the two exemplary theories, the low energy supersymmetry (focusing on the minimal supersymmetric model) and the little Higgs theory, are discussed. For the phenomenological models without addressing the hierarchy problem, we choose the two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDMs) to emphatically elucidate their phenomenological power in explaining current measurements of muon g−2, the W-boson mass and the dark matter (DM) data. For the singlet extensions, which are motivated by the cosmic phase transition and the DM issue, we illustrate the singlet-extended standard model (xSM) and the singlet-extended 2HDM (2HDM+S), emphasizing the vacuum stability. In the decade since the discovery of the Higgs boson, these theories have remained the typical candidates of new physics, which will be intensively studied in future theoretical and experimental research.

Keywords

• Higgs boson
• beyond standard model (BSM) physics
• minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM)