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Implications of Higgs boson search data on the two-Higgs doublet models with a softly broken Z 2 symmetry

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Based on current data of the Higgs boson search at the Large Hadron Collider, we constrain the parameter space of the two-Higgs doublet models where a softly broken Z 2 symmetry is employed to avoid flavor-changing neutral currents at tree level. There are four types of Yukawa interactions under the Z 2 charge assignments of the standard model fermions. We find that the model with Type-II Yukawa interactions can better explain the experimental data among all. In this scenario, the couplings of the light CP-even Higgs boson h with weak gauge bosons are almost standard model-like or only slightly different in a small range of tan β. In particular, we scrutinize a well-constrained region previously ignored by other analyses and study the phenomenology of the extra Higgs bosons at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Chiang, CW., Yagyu, K. Implications of Higgs boson search data on the two-Higgs doublet models with a softly broken Z 2 symmetry. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 160 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2013)160

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