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Wafaa Khater

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CP violation in H^\pm \to W^\pm Z: A physical approach for the 2HDM

We investigate CP violation in the process H^\pm \to W^\pm Z within the framework of the two-Higgs-Doublet model (2HDM). Amplitudes are expressed transparently in terms of physical couplings. Our analysis qualitatively confirms recent results by Kanemura and Mura, for the interference between one-loop bosonic and fermionic amplitudes. Furthermore, we identify additional sources of CP violation arising from internal interference among the bosonic and also among the fermionic loop amplitudes. In the alignment limit, the asymmetry would vanish in the absence of fermionic loop contributions when the sum of the masses of the additional neutral scalars is higher than the mass of the Z. Our results allow for generic Yukawa couplings, and cover both explicit and spontaneous CP violation. For inclusive W^\pm and Z decays, the CP violation will only manifest itself as a charge asymmetry.

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Tree-level unitarity in Higgs inflation in the metric and the Palatini formulation

We calculate the tree-level amplitudes for electrically neutral $2\to2$ scattering for the Standard Model Higgs doublet non-minimally coupled to the Ricci scalar. We consider both the metric and the Palatini formulation of gravity. We find the partial wave unitarity limit for a general background field value. Our results are in agreement with previous work. In the electroweak vacuum, tree-level unitarity is violated at $\sim M_\text{Planck}/ξ$ in the metric formulation, and at $\sim M_\text{Planck}/\sqrtξ$ in the Palatini formulation. In the inflationary large field background, the unitarity limit is at $\sim M_\text{Planck}/\sqrtξ$ in both formulations. We compare the unitarity violation energy to scales relevant during inflation. We also calculate a direct collider limit on $ξ$ in the Palatini formulation, $ξ<2.5\times10^{31}$.

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Consistency of the Two Higgs Doublet Model and CP violation in top production at the LHC

It is important to provide guidance on whether CP violation may be measurable in top-quark production at the Large Hadron Collider. The present work extends an earlier analysis of the non-supersymmetric Two-Higgs-Doublet Model in this respect, by allowing a more general potential. Also, a more comprehensive study of theoretical and experimental constraints on the model is presented. Vacuum stability, unitarity, direct searches and electroweak precision measurements severely constrain the model. We explore, at low \tanβ, the allowed regions in the multidimensional parameter space that give a viable physical model. This exploration is focused on the parameter space of the neutral sector rotation matrix, which is closely related to the Yukawa couplings of interest. In most of the remaining allowed regions, the model violates CP. We present a quantitative discussion of a particular CP-violating observable. This would be measurable in semileptonically decaying top and antitop quarks produced at the LHC, provided the number of available events is of the order of a million.

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Maximal CP nonconservation in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

We study the simplest Two-Higgs-Doublet Model that allows for CP nonconservation, where it can be parametrized by only one parameter in the Higgs potential. Different concepts of maximal CP-nonconservation in the gauge-Higgs and the quark-Higgs (Yukawa) sectors are compared. Maximal CP nonconservation in the gauge-Higgs sector does normally not lead to maximal CP nonconservation in the Yukawa sector, and vice versa.

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CP violation in top quark production at the LHC and Two-Higgs-Doublet Models

We discuss CP violation in top-antitop production at the LHC, induced by gluon fusion and final-state Higgs exchange. Results by Bernreuther and Brandenburg are confirmed and further reduced. The lepton energy asymmetry is studied in detail in explicit Two-Higgs-Doublet Models with near-maximal mixing in the neutral Higgs sector. Unless there is only one light Higgs particle, and unless (in Model II) tanbeta \lsim 1, the CP-violating effects are very small, possibly too small to be seen at the LHC.

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