Multi-Higgs Models: model building, phenomenology and renormalization

Duarte Fontes

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Multi-Higgs Models: model building, phenomenology and renormalization

Duarte Fontes

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In this thesis, we investigate several aspects of models with a multiplicity of Higgs bosons. We start by focusing on models with two Higgs doublets. We claim that one of the most used models in the literature -- the so-called real 2-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM) -- is inconsistent. We give special emphasis to the model that corrects it in the most simple way, the complex 2HDM; we study its phenomenology in the lowest order of perturbation theory and describe its renormalization in the following order. Motivated by this renormalization, we analyze in detail tadpole schemes that allow the selection of the true vacuum expectation value in models with spontaneous symmetry breaking, and we propose a theorem regarding the finitude of Green's functions with corrections to the external legs. Given the complexity of the calculations involved, it is crucial to dispose of an appropriate software. We therefore present FeynMaster, which calculates, among other things, Feynman rules, radiative corrections and counterterms in a simultaneously automatic and flexible way. We use the potential of FeynMaster to investigate two new projects related to multiple scalar bosons: first, we consider the class of models with a generic number of scalar doublets and singlets, and investigate radiative corrections to the $Z \to b \bar{b}$ process in this context; then, we explore the phenomenology of a model based on the linear seesaw hypothesis, which, in addition to two scalar doublets, includes a complex singlet.

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Duarte Fontes. 2021-09-17. Multi-Higgs Models: model building, phenomenology and renormalization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08394

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