SUSY and the Electroweak Phase Transition
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We analyze the effective 3 dimensional theory previously constructed for the MSSM and multi-Higgs models to determine the regions of parameter space in which the electroweak phase transition is sufficiently strong for a asymmetry to survive in the low temperature phase. We find that the inclusion of all supersymmetric scalars and all 1-loop corrections has the effect of enhancing the strength of the phase transition. Without a light stop or extension of the MSSM the phase transition is sufficiently first order only if the lightest Higgs mass GeV and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9612346,
title = {SUSY and the Electroweak Phase Transition},
author = {Glennys R. Farrar and Marta Losada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9612346},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 6 figures, uses epsf