Feynman Rules in the Type III Natural Flavour-Conserving Two-Higgs Doublet Model

Abstract

We consider a two Higgs-doublet model with $S_3$ symmetry, which implies a $π\over 2$ rather than 0 relative phase between the vacuum expectation values $<Φ_1>$ and $<Φ_2>$. The corresponding Feynman rules are derived accordingly and the transformation of the Higgs fields from the weak to the mass eigenstates includes not only an angle rotation but also a phase transformation. In this model, both doublets couple to the same type of fermions and the flavour-changing neutral currents are naturally suppressed. We also demonstrate that the Type III natural flavour-conserving model is valid at tree-level even when an explicit $S_3$ symmetry breaking perturbation is introduced to get a reasonable CKM matrix. In the special case $β= α$, as the ratio $\tanβ= {v_2 \over v_1}$ runs from 0 to $\infty$, the dominant Yukawa coupling will change from the first two generations to the third generation. In the Feynman rules, we also find that the charged Higgs currents are explicitly left-right asymmetric. The ratios between the left- and right-handed currents for the quarks in the same generations are estimated.