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Higgs-Yukawa coupling constraints on a benchmark one-loop radiative mass model for the bottom, charm and tau

Lucia Stockdale* and Raymond R. Volkas†

  • *Contact author: lucia.stockdale@student.unimelb.edu.au
  • †Contact author: raymondv@unimelb.edu.au
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Phys. Rev. D 114, 015003 – Published 6 July, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/xxqq-bj12

Abstract

Measurements of Higgs boson Yukawa couplings to Standard Model (SM) fermions constrain radiative mass models for those species. Such models, motivated by the observed fermion mass hierarchy, act as foils for the SM tree-level mechanism: we cannot claim to have verified the standard mechanism if other possibilities also fit the data well. We construct a benchmark model which generates the top mass at tree level and the bottom, charm, tau, and tau Dirac neutrino masses at one-loop level. Current theoretical and experimental constraints on the model, including from Higgs decays, demonstrate it possesses viable regions of parameter space. We show that future improvements to measurements will not be able to rule out the model, only increase the scale of new physics required, illustrating how difficult it will be to verify the SM fermion mass generation mechanism with great precision. As a bonus, a dark matter candidate is shown to be capable of reproducing the correct relic density within the permitted parameter space.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 015003– Published 6 July, 2026
  • Received 28 November 2025
  • Accepted 21 May 2026
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