Flavor physics in the Randall-Sundrum model I. Theoretical setup and electroweak precision tests

By S. Casagrande, Florian Goertz, U. Haisch, M. Neubert, T. Pfoh. 2008

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A complete discussion of tree-level flavor-changing effects in the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with brane-localized Higgs sector and bulk gauge and matter fields is presented. The bulk equations of motion for the gauge and fermion fields, supplemented by boundary conditions taking into account the couplings to the Higgs sector, are solved exactly. For gauge fields the Kaluza-Klein (KK) decomposition is performed in a covariant Rξ gauge. For fermions the mixing between different generations is included in a completely general way. The hierarchies observed in the fermion spectrum and the quark mixing matrix are explained naturally in terms of anarchic five-dimensional Yukawa matrices and wave-function overlap integrals. Detailed studies of the flavor-changing couplings of the Higgs boson and of gauge bosons and their KK excitations are performed, including in particular the couplings of the standard W± and Z0 bosons. A careful analysis of electroweak precision observables including the S and T parameters and the Z0b couplings shows that the simplest RS model containing only Standard Model particles and their KK excitations is consistent with all experimental bounds for a KK scale as low as a few TeV, if one allows for a heavy Higgs boson (mh 1 TeV) and/or for an ultra-violet cutoff below the Planck scale. The study of flavor-changing effects includes analyses of the non-unitarity of the quark mixing matrix, anomalous right-handed couplings of the W± bosons, tree-level flavor-changing neutral current couplings of the Z0 and Higgs bosons, the rare decays t → c(u)Z0 and t → c(u)h, and the flavor mixing among KK fermions. The results obtained in this work form the basis for general calculations of flavor-changing processes in the RS model and its extensions.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC (2019, methodology): “Integrating out the Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of mass mKK , and working in the limit of a brane-localised Higgs, keeping only terms of leading order in v(2)/m(2)KK , the SM quark mass matrices are given by [680] (see also [681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689], and Ref.”
Electroweak and Flavour Structure of a Warped Extra Dimension with Custodial Protection (2009, background): “As both cL and cR enter the formula for the Yukawa couplings and fermion masses, this freedom can help to satisfy certain features in EW precision studies [13–15, 23] and in flavour physics [8, 62] while keeping the fermion masses of their natural size.”
Higgs boson self-coupling measurements using ratios of cross sections (2013, unknown): “See, for example, [54, 55,72–78].”