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Ti-Bin Hou

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arXiv2026

Top-quark flavor-changing neutral currents and charged-lepton flavor violation in a generational three-Higgs-doublet model

In this work, we systematically investigate top-quark flavor-changing neutral-current decays, charged-lepton flavor-violating processes, and coherent $\mu-e$ conversion in the CP-conserving generational three-Higgs-doublet model (G3HDM), including the relevant tree-level and one-loop contributions. The 4839-point sample passes conservative sufficient vacuum-stability conditions, necessary perturbative-unitarity preselection cuts, Higgs-mass and signal-strength constraints, electroweak precision data, the UTfit 2025 neutral-meson-mixing ranges, $\overline{B}\to X_s\gamma$, and $B_s\to\mu^+\mu^-$. In the scanned region, $\mathrm{Br}(t\to c h_1)\leq 1.04\times10^{-5}$ and $\mathrm{Br}(h_1\to\mu\tau)\leq 4.83\times10^{-4}$, while the maximal conversion rates are $\mathrm{CR}(\mu\mathrm{Al}\to e\mathrm{Al})\approx 4.95\times10^{-15}$ and $\mathrm{CR}(\mu\mathrm{Au}\to e\mathrm{Au})\approx 1.05\times10^{-14}$. The dominant collider signals are mainly driven by tree-level flavor-changing neutral-Higgs couplings, which determine the relative strengths of these processes and induce the pronounced enhancement of $t\to c h_1$ and $h_1\to\mu\tau$. Meanwhile, the upper range of the predicted $\mu-e$ conversion rate in aluminum lies within the sensitivity reach of next-generation $\mu-e$ conversion experiments.

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arXiv2026

Electric Dipole Moments in the CP-violating Generational Three-Higgs-Doublet Model

Motivated by the Yukawa interactions in the CP-violating Generational Three-Higgs-Doublet Model (G3HDM), we investigate the electric dipole moments (EDMs) of the $b$ quark, $c$ quark, electron, neutron, and mercury atom, imposing constraints from the observed $125~\mathrm{GeV}$ Higgs signals, flavor physics, and rare $B$-meson decays. We find that the $b$ quark, neutron, and mercury EDMs are predominantly controlled by top-enhanced charged-Higgs amplitudes, whose internal cancellations are generally weak. Meanwhile, pronounced pairwise cancellations between nearly degenerate neutral Higgs states occur in the $c$ quark, electron, neutron, and mercury EDMs. Using degenerate perturbation theory, we show that these cancellations originate from approximate relations among the neutral-Higgs mixing-matrix elements, which enforce the anti-alignment of the corresponding CP-odd coupling invariants.

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arXiv2026

Flavor-Violating Higgs and Top Decays in the Type 1B Flavorful Two-Higgs-Doublet Model with a Twist

We study flavor-violating decays of the SM-like Higgs boson and rare top decays in the Type 1B realization of the flavorful two-Higgs-doublet model with a twist, focusing on $h\to sb$, $h\to db$, $h\to uc$, $h\to\mu\tau$, $h\to e\tau$, $h\to e\mu$, $t\to ch$, and $t\to uh$. We present the relevant amplitude and branching-ratio formulae, include one-loop vertex corrections, and impose constraints from Higgs signal-strength measurements, electroweak precision tests, meson mixing, $B\to X_s\gamma$, direct HFV searches and CLFV constraints, including $\mu-e$ conversion. The surviving parameter space favors $\mathrm{BR}(h\to sb)\gg\mathrm{BR}(h\to db)$, $\mathrm{BR}(t\to ch)\gg\mathrm{BR}(t\to uh)$, and $\mathrm{BR}(h\to\mu\tau)\gg\mathrm{BR}(h\to e\tau)\sim\mathrm{BR}(h\to e\mu)$ in the lepton sector. One-loop effects usually preserve these hierarchies, but can modify individual channels through different mechanisms: sizable destructive tree--loop interference can reduce $h\to sb$ enough to yield rare $\mathrm{BR}_{\mathrm{1L}}(h\to db)>\mathrm{BR}_{\mathrm{1L}}(h\to sb)$ points, whereas the large relative corrections found in rare top decays mainly reflect strong SM-like alignment suppressing the tree-level amplitudes.

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arXiv2026

The Higgs boson decay $h \to bs$ in the Generational Three-Higgs-Doublet Model

The Generational Three-Higgs-Doublet Model (G3HDM) extends the Standard Model (SM) by three Higgs doublets, which couple separately to different generations of quarks and charged leptons, and consequently make significant contributions to the neutral flavor-changing processes. Considering the latest experimental constraints on $125\mathrm{GeV}$ Higgs signals, electroweak precision observables, neutral-meson mixing, and the rare decay processes $B\to X_s\gamma$ and $B_s^0\to\mu^+\mu^-$, we perform a systematic analysis of the processes $h \to bs$ predicted in the G3HDM. This process is strongly suppressed by the loop factor in the SM, hence any observation of $h \to bs$ in the near future provides a sensitive probe of physics beyond the SM. Finally, the constraints on the parameter space and the experimental testability of G3HDM through observation $h \to bs$ are presented.

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arXiv2025

125 GeV Higgs boson rare decays in a flavor-dependent $U(1)_F$ model

In this work, we analyze the Higgs boson decay channels, specifically, $h{\rightarrow}\gamma\gamma$, $h{\rightarrow} VV^*$ (with $V=Z,W$), and $h{\rightarrow} f\bar{f}$ (for $f=b,c,\tau$) within the flavor-dependent $U(1)_F$ model (FDM). We also investigate processes induced by flavor-changing neutral currents, including the decays $\bar B \to X_s\gamma$ and $B_s^0 \to \mu^+\mu^-$, the top quark decays $t\to c h$ and $t\to u h$, and the lepton flavor-violating decays $\tau \to 3e$, $\tau \to 3\mu$, and $\mu \to 3e$. Furthermore, we incorporate the electroweak precision observables constraints via the S, T, and U parameters. Compared to the Standard Model, the scalar sector of the FDM is extended by two Higgs doublets and one Higgs singlet, which affects the 125 GeV Higgs properties significantly. Meanwhile, the decays $h{\rightarrow} Z\gamma$, $h\rightarrow MZ$, and $h{\rightarrow} M\gamma$ (where $M$ is a vector meson $(\rho,\omega,\phi,J/\Psi,\Upsilon)$ of the Standard-Model-like Higgs are studied, and we illustrate how changes in the scalar sector and the Yukawa coupling influence the signal strengths for the 125 GeV Higgs decay channels and the Higgs mass in the FDM.

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