Cosmology of Supercooled Universe
Abstract
First-order phase transitions (FOPTs) are ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Recently, models with no dimensionful parameters in the tree-level action have been attracting much attention because they can predict a very strong FOPT with ultra-supercooling. In this paper, we study the cosmological signatures of such a supercooling model. As a concrete model, we consider the SM with two additional real scalars and , which can realize the electroweak symmetry breaking via Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. One of the additional scalars can naturally become a Dark Matter (DM) candidate due to the symmetry of the action. We study the FOPT of this model and calculate the Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and the thermal relic abundance of taking the filtered effects into account. Within the envelope approximation, we find that the GW peak amplitude can reach around the frequency Hz for model parameters where is the vacuum expectation value of and is the scalar mixing coupling. On the other hand, the filtered DM mechanism only works for , where the GW peak amplitude is found to be quite small .
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@article{arxiv.2201.00560,
title = {Cosmology of Supercooled Universe},
author = {Kiyoharu Kawana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00560},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Published version in PRD, 26 pages, 6 figures