The electroweak phase transition can be made first order by extending the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector with extra scalars. The same new physics can explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe by supplying an extra source of CP violation and sphaleron processes. In this paper we study the existence of a strong first order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) in the type-I and type-II two Higgs doublet models (2HDM). We focus on how the SFOEWPT requirement constraints the spectrum of non-SM Higgs. Through a parameter space scan, we find that SFOEWPT suggests upper limits on the masses of heavy Higgs mA/H/H±, which is less than 1 TeV. High temperature expansion and Higgs vacuum uplifting is used for an analytical understanding of our results. We also study the probe ability on SFOEWPT from Higgs and Z-pole precision measurements at the one-loop level at future Higgs & Z factories. And together with theoretical constraints, sizeable loop corrections require mA≈mH±>mH to meet SFOEWPT condition in Type-II 2HDM.
@article{arxiv.2011.04540,
title = {Strong first order electroweak phase transition in 2HDM confronting future Z & Higgs factories},
author = {Wei Su and Anthony G. Williams and Mengchao Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04540},
year = {2021}
}