Aspects of Standard Models with Two Higgs Doublets 1

We 2 present some properties of the SM with two Higgs doublets. Unlike the minimal SM, the Yukawa couplings (in the usual “type II” model) converge with the increasing energy to flavor democracy (FD), i.e. to common values, in a specific flavor basis. This may represent a possible signal of some new, (almost) flavor-blind physics beyond the SM. When imposing the assumption of equality of the corresponding quark and leptonic Yukawa couplings at high transition energies, we can estimate the physical mass of the tau-neutrino as a function of mt and the VEV ratio. Furthermore, such an assumption would effectively rule out the existence of the 4th generation of fermions. We 3 also investigated the most general framework of the SM with two Higgs doublets such that no flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC) occur at the tree level. Finite 1-loopinduced FCNC (and CP-violating) effects, when confronted with experimental constraints from the physics of K and B mesons, provide us with constraints on the values of the dominant Yukawa couplings of the charged Higgs with the top quark. In the usual, more restrictive, “type II” model, this would imply certain constraints on the value of the VEV ratio.