Large 2HDM(II) one-loop corrections in leptonic tau decays

Abstract

The one-loop contributions to the branching ratios for leptonic tau decays are calculated in the CP conserving 2HDM(II). We found that these one-loop contributions, involving both neutral and charged Higgs bosons, dominate over the tree-level H^+ exchange, the latter one being totally negligible for the decay into electron. The analysis is focused on large tanbeta enhanced contributions to the considered branching ratios. We derive a simple analytical expression for the one-loop contribution which holds in this case. We show that the leptonic branching ratios of tau are complementary to the Higgsstrahlung processes for h(H) and have a large potential on constraining parameters of the model. In this work we provide upper limits on Yukawa couplings for both light h and light A scenarios and we derive new lower limit on mass of M_{H^+} as a function of tanbeta, which differs significantly from what was considered as standard constraint based on the tree-level H^{+} exchange only. Interestingly we obtain also an upper limit on M_{H^+}. For a SM-like h scenario, with heavy and degenerate additional Higgs bosons, one-loop corrections disappear.