English

Wall speed and shape in singlet-assisted strong electroweak phase transitions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-03-31 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Models with singlet fields coupling to the Higgs can enable a strongly first order electroweak phase transition, of interest for baryogenesis and gravity waves. We improve on previous attempts to self-consistently solve for the bubble wall properties -- wall speed vwv_w and shape -- in a highly predictive class of models with Z2Z_2-symmetric singlet potentials. A new algorithm is implemented to determine vwv_w and the wall profiles throughout the singlet parameter space in the case of subsonic walls, focusing on models with strong enough phase transitions to satisfy the sphaleron washout constraint for electroweak baryogenesis. We find speeds as low as vw0.1v_w \cong 0.1 in our scan over parameter space, and the singlet must be relatively light to have a subsonic wall, ms135m_s \lesssim 135 GeV.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.14295,
  title  = {Wall speed and shape in singlet-assisted strong electroweak phase transitions},
  author = {Avi Friedlander and Ian Banta and James M. Cline and David Tucker-Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14295},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages, 15 figures

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