Scalar Fields in Particle Physics

Abstract: Extending the scalar sector helps in studying the Higgs mechanism and some Standard Model problems. We implement the correspondence between the gauge-dependent elementary states and the non-perturbative non-abelian gauge-invariant asymptotic states, necessary to study the non-perturbative phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models. The Flavour and CP violation in experimental data follows a hierarchical pattern, accounted by the Standard Model. We define the Minimal Flavour Violation condition with six spurions in effective field theories, implying Flavour and CP violation entirely dependent on the fermion mixing matrices but independent of the fermion masses hierarchy; it is renormalization-group invariant. We study the phenomenology of renormalizable two-Higgs-doublet models which verify the defined condition as consequence of a symmetry; new light physical scalars, mediating Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, are allowed by flavour data without flavour coefficients beyond the Standard Model; we tested the models with C++ libraries linked by the symbolic skills of the GiNaC library and we propose more libraries supporting a systematic search for Flavour Changing Neutral Currents. We also map the complex to the real Poincare group representations, derive the free Dirac equation requiring covariant localizability of the representations and study Localization and gauge symmetries in Quantum Field Theory.