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Singlet-Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transitions in the 100 TeV Frontier

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

We study the prospects for probing a gauge singlet scalar-driven strong first order electroweak phase transition with a future proton-proton collider in the 100 TeV range. Singlet-Higgs mixing enables resonantly-enhanced di-Higgs production, potentially aiding discovery prospects. We perform Monte Carlo scans of the parameter space to identify regions associated with a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, analyze the corresponding di-Higgs signal, and select a set of benchmark points that span the range of di-Higgs signal strengths. For the bbˉγγb\bar{b}\gamma\gamma and 4τ4\tau final states, we investigate discovery prospects for each benchmark point for the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider and for a future pppp collider with s\sqrt{s} = 50, 100, or 200 TeV. We find that any of these future collider scenarios could significantly extend the reach beyond that of the high luminosity LHC, and that with s\sqrt{s} = 100 TeV (200 TeV) and 30 ab1^{-1}, the full region of parameter space favorable to strong first order electroweak phase transitions is almost fully (fully) discoverable.

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@article{arxiv.1605.06123,
  title  = {Singlet-Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transitions in the 100 TeV Frontier},
  author = {Ashutosh V. Kotwal and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf and Jose Miguel No and Peter Winslow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06123},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, 31 figures

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