Viable Alternative to the Standard Model

Abstract

As an alternative to the standard model, we couple two scalar doublets such that, in the third family, one (${\cal H}$) couples only to the top quark, the other ($H$), that is identified as the 126 GeV state already observed, to the bottom quark and the tau lepton. Three explicit predictions of the model are that the partial decay rate $\Gamma(H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma)$ is 28.1\% higher than predicted by the standard model, and the two partial decay widths $\Gamma(H \rightarrow \bar{b}b)$ and $\Gamma(H \rightarrow \bar{\tau}\tau)$ are both predicted to be greater than, or equal to, their standard model values.