Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1993-08-11
Phys.Rev. D48 (1993) 5342-5353
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
25 pages, plain LaTeX, Melbourne preprint UM-P-93/51
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.48.5342
A discrete symmetry between quarks and (generalized) leptons can exist in nature, and its spontaneous symmetry breaking scale can be as low as a few TeV. Such a discrete symmetry also has interesting implications for how electroweak symmetry is spontaneously broken, because the simplest version of the theory requires two electroweak Higgs doublets rather than one in order to provide acceptable values for quark and lepton masses. The effective theory generated at electroweak-scale energies is thus a particular type of two-Higgs-doublet model. We point out in this paper that the broken discrete symmetry imposes very interesting constraints on the form of the Yukawa couplings between physical Higgs bosons and quarks and leptons. In particular, we find that the flavour-changing neutral Higgs couplings to down-sector quarks are proportional to the neutrino Dirac mass matrix. If neutrinos are Dirac particles, then the severe experimental upper bounds on their mass values renders tree-level neutral flavour-changing Higgs effects on down-quark systems like $K^0-\bar{K}^0$ negligibly small. We also discuss minimization of some relevant Higgs potentials and some other pertinent phenomenological issues.
Levin Yan
Volkas Raymond R.
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