Abstract: The Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) is one of the simples extensions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. The introduction of a second Higgs doublet has interesting phenomenological consequences, namely a more complex vacuum structure than the SM's. In fact, in the 2HDM there are three possible types of vacua: the electroweak vacuum analogous to the SM one; the charge breaking vacuum, in which the electromagnetism symmetry is also broken, leaving the photon massive; and the CP breaking vacuum, for which the CP symmetry is spontanelously broken, alongside the electroweak symmetry. In this seminar we will demonstrate the impossibility of simultaneous coexistence of diferente types of mínima. We will also discuss the possible existence of tree-level metastable electroweak vacua, their importance in the light of the recente Higgs boson discovery at the LHC and the conditions which determine their existence and location of the global minimum of the model. We will finally discuss the generalization of these results for models with N Higgs doublets.
Vacuum Structure in Two-Higgs Doublet Models
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Black Hole Workshops
Next workshop:
XVIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2025
18-19 December 2025
Previous workshops in the series:
I Black Holes Workshop, Porto, 2008
II Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2009
III Black Holes Workshop, Minho, 2010
IV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2011
V Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2012
VI Black Holes Workshop, Minho 2013
VII Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro 2014
VIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon 2015
IX Black Holes Workshop, Minho 2016
X Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro 2017
XI Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2018
XII Black Holes Workshop, Minho, 2019
XIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2020
XIV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2021
XV Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2022
XVI Black Holes Workshop, Porto, 2023
XVII Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2024
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FunFiCO Network
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EuCAPT Consortium
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StronGrHEP Network
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Meetings:
Paris, 12-13 May 2016
Azores, 3-8 July 2017
Osaka, 4-8 September 2017
NRHEP Network Meetings
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:
First Meeting:
9-13 July 2012, Aveiro, Portugal
Second Meeting:
11-14 March 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
Third Meeting:
6-10 January 2014, Mississippi, USA
Fourth Meeting:
7-10 July 2015, Rome, Italy
Fifth Meeting:
28 Sep-2 Oct 2015, Belém, Brazil
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