Probing Electroweak Phase Transition in the Singlet Standard Model via $bb\gamma\gamma$ and 4$l$ channels
Abstract
We investigate the prospects for resonant di-Higgs and heavy Higgs production searches at the 14 TeV HL-LHC in the combination of and channels, as a probe of a possible first order electroweak phase transition in real singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model. Event selection follows those utilized in the and searches by the ATLAS Collaboration, applied to simulation using benchmark parameters that realize a strong first order electroweak phase transition. The output of discriminant analysis is implemented by numerical calculation, optimised by the joint restriction from the two channels. The prospective reach for / channel could be more competitive in probing the electroweak phase transition at lower/higher resonance masses. With 3 integrated luminosity, the combination of the and channels can discover/exclude a significant portion of %\mrmC{isn't it more accurate to say "a significant portion of" ?} of the viable parameter space that realizes a strong first order phase transition when the resonance mass is heavier than 500 GeV.
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@article{arxiv.2303.03612,
title = {Probing Electroweak Phase Transition in the Singlet Standard Model via $bb\gamma\gamma$ and 4$l$ channels},
author = {Wenxing Zhang and Hao-Lin Li and Kun Liu and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf and Yonghao Zeng and Suntharan Arunasalam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03612},
year = {2023}
}