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We propose a minimal extension of the Standard Model by two real singlet fields that could provide a good candidate for light Dark Matter, and give a strong first order electroweak phase transition. As a result, there are two CP even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-18 Amine Ahriche , Salah Nasri

The mechanism behind Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) and the nature of dark matter (DM) are currently among the most important issues in high energy physics. Since a natural dark matter candidate is a weakly interacting massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Hambye , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We investigate a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a real singlet scalar and a singlet Dirac fermion acting as dark matter. Unlike a conventional singlet scalar setup, we assume that the singlet scalar does not acquire a vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Jaydeb Das , Saurabh Niyogi , Tripurari Srivastava

We consider generation of dark matter mass via radiative electroweak symmetry breaking in an extension of the conformal Standard Model containing a singlet scalar field with a Higgs portal interaction. Generating the mass from a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-29 T. G. Steele , Zhi-Wei Wang , D. Contreras , R. B. Mann

A minimal extension of the Standard Model that provides both a dark matter candidate and a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) consists of two additional Lorentz and gauge singlets. In this paper we work out a composite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-14 Mikael Chala , Germano Nardini , Ivan Sobolev

We show that vector-like fermions can act as the dark matter candidate in the universe whilst also playing a crucial role in electroweak baryogenesis through contributing to the barrier in the one-loop thermal scalar potential. In order for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-06 Malcolm Fairbairn , Philipp Grothaus

We study in this work a scenario that the universe undergoes a two step phase transition with the first step happened to the dark matter sector and the second step being the transition between the dark matter and the electroweak vacuums,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Wei Chao , Huai-Ke Guo , Jing Shu

The extension of the standard model's minimal Higgs sector with an inert $SU(2)_L$ scalar doublet can provide light dark matter candidate and simultaneously induce a strong phase transition for explaining Baryogenesis. There is however no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Shehu S. AbdusSalam , Talal Ahmed Chowdhury

In the standard model, the weak gauge bosons and fermions obtain mass after spontaneous electro-weak symmetry breaking, which is realized through one fundamental scalar field, namely Higgs field. In this paper we study the simplest scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shou-hua Zhu

The Higgs portal to scalar Dark Matter is considered in the context of non-linearly realised electroweak symmetry breaking. We determine the dominant interactions of gauge bosons and the physical Higgs particle $h$ to a scalar singlet dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 I. Brivio , M. B. Gavela , L. Merlo , K. Mimasu , J. M. No , R. del Rey , V. Sanz

We consider a non-Abelian dark SU(2)$_{\rm D}$ model where the dark sector couples to the Standard Model (SM) through a Higgs portal. We investigate two different scenarios of the dark sector scalars with $Z_2$ symmetry, with Higgs portal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Tathagata Ghosh , Huai-Ke Guo , Tao Han , Hongkai Liu

Effect of the electroweak non-conservation of the baryon number could be a key ingredient to explain the ratio of dark and baryonic densities. If dark matter is explained by dark atoms, in which stable -2n charged particles are bound with n…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-15 V. A. Beylin , M. Yu. Khlopov , D. O. Sopin

We provide a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the prospects to realize Dark Matter (DM) in the Inert Doublet Model, while simultaneously enhancing the Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPhT) such as to allow for electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 Sven Fabian , Florian Goertz , Yun Jiang

We investigate an extension of the Standard Model (SM) with two candidates for dark matter (DM). One of them is a real scalar field and the other is an Abelian gauge field. Except for these two, there is another beyond SM field which has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We consider an extension of the Standard Model with a complex singlet scalar, where a global $U(1)$ symmetry is explicitly broken to $\mathbb{Z}_3$ symmetry. We study the two-step electroweak phase transition in the model and find that it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-20 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Bo-Qiang Lu

The thermal relic abundance of Dark Matter motivates the existence of new electroweak scale particles, independent of naturalness considerations. However, most unnatural Dark Matter models do not ensure the presence of new particles charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 Aaron Pierce , Jesse Thaler

We study a conformal version of the Standard Model (SM), which apart from SM sector, containing a $ U_{D}(1) $ dark sector with a vector dark matter candidate and a scalar field (scalon). In this model the dark sector couples to the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-02 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad

The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model has a candidate dark matter particle in its spectrum and may be able to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) at the electroweak phase transition. In the Constrained MSSM, we find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sacha Davidson , Toby Falk , Marta Losada

In this research we consider a $U(1)_X$ gauge boson acting as a dark matter candidate. The vector dark matter (DM) gets mass when a complex singlet scalar breaks the gauge symmetry spontaneously, adding a second Higgs boson to the spectra.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-15 Amir Amiri , Bastián Díaz Sáez , Karim Ghorbani

We study the phenomenology of gauge singlet extensions of the Standard Model scalar sector and their implications for the electroweak phase transition. We determine the conditions on the scalar potential parameters that lead to a strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 Stefano Profumo , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Gabe Shaughnessy