The Electric Dipole Moment of the electron in the decoupling limit of the aligned Two-Higgs Doublet Model

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Main Authors: Dávila, Juan Manuel, Karan, Anirban, Passemar, Emilie, Pich, Antonio, Silva, Luiz Vale
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author Dávila, Juan Manuel
Karan, Anirban
Passemar, Emilie
Pich, Antonio
Silva, Luiz Vale
author_facet Dávila, Juan Manuel
Karan, Anirban
Passemar, Emilie
Pich, Antonio
Silva, Luiz Vale
contents We present a discussion of model-independent contributions to the EDM of the electron. We focus on those contributions that emerge from a heavy scalar sector that is linearly realized. In particular, we explore the decoupling limit of the aligned 2HDM. In this model, Barr-Zee diagrams with a fermion loop produce logarithmically-enhanced contributions that are proportional to potentially large new sources of CP violation. In the decoupling limit these contributions are generated by effective dimension-6 operators via the mixing of four-fermion operators into electroweak dipole operators. These logarithmic contributions are not present in more constrained versions of the 2HDM where a $\mathcal Z_2$ symmetry is imposed, which then controls the basis of effective operators needed to describe the new physics contributions to the electron EDM. Thus, the $\mathcal Z_2$ symmetry provides a suppression mechanism. In the course of the comparison of the results from the aligned 2HDM with the leading logarithms from SMEFT, we needed to specify or correct signs of expressions found in the literature. We then study how the experimental bounds on the electron EDM constrain the set of parameters of the aligned 2HDM.
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spellingShingle The Electric Dipole Moment of the electron in the decoupling limit of the aligned Two-Higgs Doublet Model
Dávila, Juan Manuel
Karan, Anirban
Passemar, Emilie
Pich, Antonio
Silva, Luiz Vale
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We present a discussion of model-independent contributions to the EDM of the electron. We focus on those contributions that emerge from a heavy scalar sector that is linearly realized. In particular, we explore the decoupling limit of the aligned 2HDM. In this model, Barr-Zee diagrams with a fermion loop produce logarithmically-enhanced contributions that are proportional to potentially large new sources of CP violation. In the decoupling limit these contributions are generated by effective dimension-6 operators via the mixing of four-fermion operators into electroweak dipole operators. These logarithmic contributions are not present in more constrained versions of the 2HDM where a $\mathcal Z_2$ symmetry is imposed, which then controls the basis of effective operators needed to describe the new physics contributions to the electron EDM. Thus, the $\mathcal Z_2$ symmetry provides a suppression mechanism. In the course of the comparison of the results from the aligned 2HDM with the leading logarithms from SMEFT, we needed to specify or correct signs of expressions found in the literature. We then study how the experimental bounds on the electron EDM constrain the set of parameters of the aligned 2HDM.
title The Electric Dipole Moment of the electron in the decoupling limit of the aligned Two-Higgs Doublet Model
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16700