Singlet-Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transitions in the 100 TeV Frontier
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 and final states, we investigate discovery prospects for each benchmark point for the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider and for a future collider with = 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 = 100 TeV (200 TeV) and 30 ab, the full region of parameter space favorable to strong first order electroweak phase transitions is almost fully (fully) discoverable.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
17 pages, 31 figures