Upper Bound on R_b in Two Higgs Doublet Model from Lepton Universality

Abstract

It has been known that $R_b$ can be enhanced in the two Higgs doublet model if $\tan \beta$ is large. We point out that a similar enhancement in $\Gamma (Z\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-})$ is large enough to place a constraint on such a possibility. We obtain a 95% CL upper bound $\Delta R_b/R_b<0.73$ in this model for the $\overline{MS}$ mass $m_b(m_Z)=3.0$ GeV. The 1996 world average is $\Delta R_b/R_b$ = $0.97$. We used the $m_b(m_Z)$ to determine the bottom Yukawa coupling instead of $m_b(m_b)$ unlike in previous analyses, and also an improved experimental test of the lepton universality in $Z$ decay, which made our results qualitatively different.

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