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Electroweak phase transition and Higgs phenomenology in the Georgi-Machacek model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

In this work, we perform the electroweak phase transition study with the Georgi-Machacek model. We investigate both the one-step and two-step strong first order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT). The SFOEWPT viable parameter spaces could be tested by the future 14 TeV LHC, HL-LHC, and ILC. The LHC Higgs signal strength measurements severely bound the SFOEWPT valid parameter spaces, a tinny region of the mixing angle between the neutral fields of the isospin-doublet and isospin-triplet scalars around α0\alpha\sim 0 can allow the two-step SFOEWPT to occur. The triplet vacuum expectation value (VEV) is crucial for both SFOEWPT and related Higgs phenomenology. The two-step SFOEWPT can be distinguished from the one-step SFOEWPT through the triple Higgs coupling searches and the low mass doubly charged Higgs searches at colliders.

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@article{arxiv.1812.06217,
  title  = {Electroweak phase transition and Higgs phenomenology in the Georgi-Machacek model},
  author = {Ruiyu Zhou and Wei Cheng and Xin Deng and Ligong Bian and Yongcheng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06217},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

28 pages, 12 figures, comments welcome