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Received 5 September 2006; received in revised form 29 October 2006; accepted 16 November 2006
Available online 13 December 2006
Editor: G.F. Giudice
Abstract
We study the complete one loop contribution to H W V , V = Z, , in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We
evaluate the MSSM contributions taking into account B Xs constraint as well as experimental constraints on the MSSM parameters. In the
MSSM, we found that in the intermediate range of tan 10 and for large At and large , where lightest stop becomes very light and hence
squarks contribution is not decoupling, the branching ratio of H W Z can be of the order 103 while the branching ratio of H W
is of the order 105 . We also study the effects of the CP violating phases of soft SUSY parameters and found that they can modify the branching
ratio by about one order of magnitude.
2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.
1. Introduction
The Standard Model (SM) of electroweak interactions is
very successful in explaining all experimental data available
till now. The cornerstone of the SM, the electroweak symmetry
breaking mechanism, still has to be established and the Higgs
boson has to be discovered. The main goals of future colliders such as LHC and ILC is to study the scalar sector of the
SM. Moreover, the problematic scalar sector of the SM can be
enlarged and some simple extensions such as the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and the two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) [1,2] are intensively studied. Both in the
2HDM and MSSM the electroweak symmetry breaking is generated by 2 Higgs doublets fields 1 and 2 . After electroweak
symmetry breaking we are left with 5 physical Higgs particles
(2 charged Higgs H , 2 CP-even H 0 , h0 and one CP-odd A0 ).
The charged Higgs H , because of its electrical charge, is noticeably different from the other SM or 2HDM/MSSM Higgs
particles, its discovery would be a clear evidence of physics
beyond the SM. In this study, our concerns is charged Higgs
* Corresponding author.
1 Note that in the 2HDM it may be possible that the decay channel H
W A0 is open and even dominate over mode for mH mt [1113].
2 Note that at Tevatron run II, the charged Higgs is also searched in top de-
cay [14].
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They are generated at one loop level and then are expected to
be loop suppressed [2024]. Hereafter, we will give the general
structure of such one loop couplings and discuss the renormalization scheme introduced to deal with tadpoles and vector
boson scalar boson mixing.
2.1. One loop amplitude H W V
The amplitude M for a scalar decaying to two gauges
bosons V1 and V2 can be written as
M=
g 3 V1 V2
16 2 mW
M ,
(1)
= F1 g + F2 p1 p2 + F3 i p1 p2 ,
(2)
W V
+ g2 H
+ ig3 H FV F
FV FW
W
+ h.c.,
(3)
operators H FV FW and H FV F W are dimension five. One conclude that g2,3 (respectively, g1 ) must be of
the form g(R)/M (respectively, Mg(R)) with M a heavy scale
in MSSM, g(R) a dimensionless function and R is a ratio of
some internal masses of the model under studies. Therefore, it
is expected that in case of H W Z decay, F1 will grow
quadratically with internal top quark mass while F2,3 will have
only logarithmic dependence [21].3 A contrario, for H
W decay, the electromagnetic gauge invariance relates F1
and F2 and then the amplitude of H W will not grows
quadratically with internal masses. One expect that the decay
H W is less enhanced compared to H W Z.
2.2. On-shell renormalization
We have evaluated the one-loop induced process H
W V in the t HooftFeynman gauge using dimensional regularization. Since we are interested in the charged Higgs decay
3 As it has been shown in Ref. [21], the top quark contribution does not decouple while squarks contributions does.
to SM particles like W Z and W , at one-loop level, dimensional regularization will give the same result as dimensional
reduction. In fact, we have checked numerically that the dimensional regularization and dimensional reduction gives the same
result.
The typical Feynman diagrams that contribute to H
(4)
With these substitutions in the scalar covariant derivative Lagrangian of the Higgs fields (in the convention of [1]), followed
by expanding the renormalization constants Zi = 1 + Zi to the
one-loop order, we obtain all the counter-terms relevant for our
process:
W H = k ,
(5)
A W H = ieg ,
(6)
s
W
Z W H = ieg
(7)
,
cW
where k denotes the momentum of the incoming W and
sin 2
v2 v1
=
+ Z1 Z2 .
mW
2
v2
v1
(8)
TH + tH = 0.
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These conditions guarantee that v1,2 appearing in the renormalized Lagrangian LR are located at the minimum of the
one-loop potential.
The real part of the renormalized non-diagonal self-energy
H W (k 2 ) vanishes for an on-shell charged Higgs boson:
e H W m2H = 0.
(9)
This renormalization condition determines the term to be
= e H W m2H
(10)
and consequently [A W H ] and [Z W H ] are also
fixed.
The last renormalization condition is sufficient to discard the
real part of the H G mixing contribution as well. Indeed,
using the SlavnovTaylor identity [31]
k 2 H W k 2 mW H G k 2 = 0 at k 2 = m2H (11)
which is valid also for the renormalized quantities together with
Eq. (9), it follows that
e H G m2H = 0.
(12)
In particular, the Feynman diagrams depicted in Fig. 1.9 will
not contribute with the above renormalization conditions, being
purely real valued.
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Fig. 3. Branching ratios of H W Z (left) and H W (right) as a function of mH in the MSSM and 2HDM for MSUSY = 500 GeV, M2 = 175 GeV,
= 1.4 TeV and At = Ab = A = for various values of tan .
(ii) b s constraint. The present world average for inclusive b s rate is [32] B(B Xs ) = (3.3 0.4) 104 .
We keep the B Xs branching ratio in the 3 range of
(2.14.5) 104 . The SM part of B Xs is calculated up to
NLO using the expression given in [34]. While for the MSSM
part, the Wilson coefficient C7 and C8 are included at LO in
the framework of MSSM with CKM as the only source of flavor violation and are taken from [35]. (iii) We will assume
that all SUSY particles Sfermions and charginos are heavier
than about 100 GeV; for the light CP even Higgs we assume
mh0 98 GeV and tan 3 [36].
As the experimental bound on mh0 is concerned, care has to
be taken. Since we are using only one-loop approximation for
the Higgs spectrum, and as it is known, higher order corrections [37] may reduce the light CP-even Higgs mass in some
cases. It may be possible that some parameter space points,
shown in this analysis, which survive to the experimental limit
4 Pure 2HDM means that we include just the 2HDM part of the MSSM that
contributes here in the loop, i.e. only SM fermion, gauge bosons and Higgs
bosons with MSSM sum rules for the Higgs sector.
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Fig. 4. Branching ratios for H W Z (left), H W (right) as a function of tan in the MSSM with MSUSY = 500 GeV, M2 = 200 GeV,
mH = 500 GeV, At = Ab = A = for various values of At .
Fig. 5. Scatter plot for branching ratios of H W Z (left), H W (right) in the (mH , tan ) plane in the MSSM for MSUSY = 1 TeV, M2 = 175 GeV,
At,b, = MSUSY and = 1 TeV.
SUSY particles, we can see that the branching fraction get enhanced and can reach 103 in case of H W Z and 105
in case of H W . The source of this enhancement is
mainly due to the presence of scalar fermion contribution in the
loop which are amplified by threshold effects from the opening of the decay H ti bj . It turns out that the contribution
of charginos neutralinos loops does not enhance the branching
fraction significantly as compared to scalar fermions loops. The
plots also show that, the branching fraction is more important
for intermediate tan = 16 and is slightly reduced for larger
tan = 25.
This tan dependence is shown in Fig. 4 both for H
imental limit on the light CP even Higgs h0 is violated. As indicated above, we assume a conservative limit of mh0 98 GeV
rather than mh0 114 GeV which should be used in the case of
decoupling limit where ZZh0 coupling mimic the SM one.
We also show a scatter plot Fig. 5 for H W Z (left)
and H W (right) in (mH , tan ) plane for At = =
1 TeV, MSUSY = At and M2 = 175 GeV. As it can be seen
from Fig. 5 there is only a small area for tan 10 where the
branching ratio of H W Z can be in the range 105 103 .
We now illustrate in Fig. 6 the branching fraction of H
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Fig. 6. Branching ratios for H W Z (left) and H W (right) as a function of At in the MSSM with MSUSY = 500 GeV, M2 = 200 GeV,
mH = 500 GeV, At = Ab = A = and 2 TeV < < 0.1 TeV for various values of tan .
Fig. 7. Branching ratios for H W Z (left) and H W (right) in the MSSM as a function of Arg(At ): MSUSY = 500 GeV, M2 = 150 GeV,
mH = 500 GeV, At = Ab = A = = 1 TeV and for various values of tan .
done for the single charged Higgs production at hadron collider [39]. It is well known that the presence of large SUSY
CP violating phases can give contributions to electric dipole
moments of the electron and neutron (EDM) which exceed the
experimental upper bounds. In a variety of SUSY models such
phases turn out to be severely constrained by such constraints,
i.e. Arg() < (102 ) for a SUSY mass scale of the order of
few hundred GeV [40]. For H W Z and H W decays which are sensitive to MSSM CP violating phases through
squarks and charginosneutralinos contributions, it turns out
that the effect of MSSM CP violating phases is important and
can enhance the rate by about one order of magnitude. For
illustration we show in Fig. 7 the effect of At,b, CP violating phases for MSUSY = 500 GeV, At,b, = = 1 TeV and
M2 = 150 GeV. For simplicity, we assume that is real. As it
is clear, the CP phase of At,b, can enhance the rates of both
H W Z, by more than an order of magnitude. The observed cuts in the plot are due to b s constraint. The CP
violating phases can lead to CP-violating rate asymmetry of
H decays, those issues are going to be addressed in an incoming paper [41].
4. Conclusion
In the framework of MSSM we have studied charged Higgs
decays into a pair of gauge bosons namely: H W Z and
H W . In the MSSM we have also studied the effects of
MSSM CP violating phases. In contrast to previous studies, we
have performed the calculation in the t HooftFeynman gauge
and used a renormalization prescription to deal with tadpoles,
W H and G H mixing. The study has been carried out
taking into account the experimental constraint on the parameter, b s constraint. Numerical results for the branching
ratios have been presented. In the MSSM, we have shown that
the branching ratio of H W Z can reach 103 in some
cases while H W never exceed 105 . The effect of
MSSM CP violating phases is also found to be important.
Those branching ratio of the order 103 might provide an
opportunity to search for a charged Higgs boson at the LHC
through H W Z.
At the end, we would like to mention that some effects
shown in this study may be ruled out by the experimental bound
on the light CP-even mass if we take into account 2-loop radiative corrections on the Higgs spectrum which have the tendency
to reduce the light CP-even mass in some cases. On the other
hand, the inclusion of high effects for H W V like bottom and top quarks mass running as well as tan resummation
could affect the rate of H W V .
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