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Threshold corrections to the MSSM finite-temperature Higgs potential

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-13 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) the one-loop finite-temperature corrections from the squark-Higgs bosons sector are calculated, the effective two-Higgs-doublet potential is reconstructed and possibilities of the electroweak phase transition in full MSSM (mH±m_{H^\pm}, tgβ{\tt tg}\beta, At,bA_{t,b}, μ\mu, mQm_Q, mUm_U, mDm_D) parameter space are studied. At large values of At,bA_{t,b} and μ\mu of around 1 TeV, favored indirectly by LEP2 and Tevatron data, the threshold finite-temperature corrections from triangle and box diagrams with intermediate third generation squarks are very substantial. The four types of bifurcation sets are defined for the two-Higgs-doublet potential. High sensitivity of the low-temperature evolution to the effective two-doublet and the MSSM squark sector parameters is observed, but rather extensive regions of the full MSSM parameter space allow the first-order electroweak phase transition respecting the phenomenological constraints at zero temperature. As a rule, these regions of the MSSM parameter space are in line with the case of a light stop quark.

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@article{arxiv.0901.0524,
  title  = {Threshold corrections to the MSSM finite-temperature Higgs potential},
  author = {M. Dolgopolov and M. Dubinin and E. Rykova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0524},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Two plots for the criteria v_c/T_c > 1 (strongly first order phase transition) are added. 32 pages, 22 figures

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