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Strong first order electroweak phase transition in 2HDM confronting future Z & Higgs factories

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-05-12 v1

Abstract

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±m_{A/H/H^\pm}, 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 ZZ-pole precision measurements at the one-loop level at future Higgs & ZZ factories. And together with theoretical constraints, sizeable loop corrections require mAmH±>mHm_A \approx m_{H^\pm} > m_H to meet SFOEWPT condition in Type-II 2HDM.

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@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}
}

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26+12 pages, 10 figures

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