On three-loop RGE for the Higgs sector of 2HDM

Abstract

We discuss renormalization group equations (RGE) for the parameters of the Higgs sector in general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM). We present the three-loop results but consider only contributions due to self-couplings of the Higgs doublets. We study the structure of RGE and express beta-functions in terms of reparametrization invariants with respect to higgs-basis rotations. The Cayley-Hamilton theorem is utilized to reduce both the number of independent tensor structures in matrix RGE and the number of invariants to a minimal set. As a by-product of our calculation we discovered that two-loop RGE of the scalar sector in general QFT with multiple higgses were not properly implemented in a number of public packages. The latter give rise to a wrong result when mixing in the scalar sector is allowed.