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Gravitational waves in models with multicritical-point principle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-08 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The multicritical-point principle (MPP) provides a natural explanation of the large hierarchy between the Planck and electroweak scales. We consider a scenario in which MPP is applied to the Standard Model extended by two real singlet scalar fields ϕ\phi and SS, and a dimensional transmutation occurs by the vacuum expectation value of ϕ\phi. In this paper, we focus on the critical points that possess a Z2\mathbb Z_2 symmetry SSS\rightarrow -S and all the other fields are left invariant. Then SS becomes a natural dark matter (DM) candidate. Further, we concentrate on the critical points where ϕ\phi does not possess further Z2\mathbb Z_2 symmetry so that there is no cosmological domain-wall problem. Among such critical points, we focus on maximally critical one called CP-1234 that fix all the superrenormalizable parameters. We show that there remains a parameter region that satisfies the DM relic abundance, DM direct-detection bound and the current LHC constraints. In this region, we find a first-order phase transition in the early universe around the TeV-scale temperature. The resultant gravitational waves are predicted with a peak amplitude of O(1012){\cal O}(10^{-12}) at a frequency of 10210^{-2}-10110^{-1} Hz, which can be tested with future space-based instruments such as DECIGO and BBO.

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@article{arxiv.2202.04221,
  title  = {Gravitational waves in models with multicritical-point principle},
  author = {Yuta Hamada and Hikaru Kawai and Kiyoharu Kawana and Kin-ya Oda and Kei Yagyu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04221},
  year   = {2022}
}

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22 pages, 6 figures

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