Constraints on the Doublet Left-Right Symmetric Model from Higgs data

Abstract

We study the constraints on the doublet left-right symmetric model (DLRSM) arising due to the Higgs data. The $SU(2)_L$ symmetry of this model is broken by three vacuum expectation values, $\kappa_1$, $\kappa_2$, and $v_L$. Most studies of this model assume that the ratios $r = \kappa_2/\kappa_1$ and $w = v_L/\kappa_1$ are very small. In this work, we study the constraints imposed on $r$ and $w$ by the Higgs data from LHC. We consider the most general scalar potential and calculate the masses of the CP-even scalars and the couplings of the lightest of these scalars to itself, to $W$ and $Z$ gauge bosons, and to the third generation quarks. We find that there is no lower bound on either $r$ or $w$. Equating the mass of the lightest CP-even scalar to $125$ GeV leads to an upper limit $w < 6.7$. The requirement that the Yukawa coupling of the quarks to the Higgs bidoublet of the model should be perturbative yields the upper bounds $r < 0.8$ and $w < 3.5$. The Yukawa coupling of the bottom quark to the lightest CP-even scalar strongly disfavours value of $r, w < 0.1$ and shows a marked preference for values of $w \sim \mathcal{O}(1)$.