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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 B+LB+L 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 Mh\lsi70M_{h}\lsi 70 GeV and tanβ\lsi1.75tan\beta\lsi 1.75.

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@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}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures, uses epsf