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We analyze the theoretical and phenomenological considerations for the electroweak phase transition and dark matter in an extension of the Standard Model with a complex scalar singlet (cxSM). In contrast with earlier studies, we use a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Eibun Senaha

We study the strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition in the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), where particle dark matter (DM) is comprised of the lightest neutral inert Higgs boson. We improve over previous studies in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-22 Nikita Blinov , Stefano Profumo , Tim Stefaniak

In an extension to the scale invariant standard model by two real singlet scalars $s$ and $s'$ in addition to the Higgs field, we investigate the strong first-order electroweak phase transition as a requirement for baryogenesis. This is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Parsa Hossein Ghorbani

The significance of the electroweak phase transition is undeniable, and although initially it was believed that it was second-order, it is now believed that it is a first-order transition. However, it is not a strong first-order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-27 V. K. Oikonomou , Apostolos Giovanakis

Light new physics weakly coupled to the Higgs can induce a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT). Here, we argue that scenarios in which the EWPT is driven first-order by a light scalar with mass between $\sim 10$ GeV -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Jonathan Kozaczuk , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Jessie Shelton

We consider phase transitions in the standard model (SM) without the Higgs mass term, which is coupled through a Higgs portal term to an SM singlet, classically scale-invariant gauge sector with SM singlet scalar fields. At lower energies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-08 Jisuke Kubo , Masatoshi Yamada

We study the type-II first-order electroweak phase transition and dark matter (DM) phenomenology in both real and complex singlet extensions of SM. In the real singlet extension with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry, we show that the parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-22 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Da Huang , Bo-Qiang Lu

Determining the thermal history of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is an important challenge for particle physics and cosmology. Lattice simulations indicate that EWSB in the Standard Model (SM) occurs through a crossover transition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

We reconsider the strength of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the inert doublet dark matter model, using a quantitatively accurate form for the one-loop finite temperature effective potential, taking into account relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Debasish Borah , James M. Cline

We study the electroweak phase transition in the minimal extension of the Standard Model: an extra complex singlet with zero vacuum expectation value. The first-order phase transition is strengthened by the cubic term triggered in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 J. R. Espinosa , M. Quirós

We investigate the possibility of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition during the early universe within the framework of the gauged two-Higgs doublet model (G2HDM) and explore its detectability through stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Van Que Tran , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We discuss whether a multi-step electroweak phase transition (EWPT) occurs in two Higgs doublet models (2HDMs). The EWPT is related to interesting phenomena such as baryogenesis and a gravitational wave from it. We examine parameter regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-16 Mayumi Aoki , Takatoshi Komatsu , Hiroto Shibuya

In this work, we perform the electroweak phase transition study with the Georgi-Machacek model. We investigate both the one-step and two-step strong first order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT). The SFOEWPT viable parameter spaces…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Ruiyu Zhou , Wei Cheng , Xin Deng , Ligong Bian , Yongcheng Wu

We study the two Higgs doublet model with a complex singlet scalar whose imaginary part acts as dark matter (DM). The scattering of DM and quarks, mediated by three CP-even scalars in this model, is suppressed when masses of CP-even scalars…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Gi-Chol Cho , Chikako Idegawa

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) in the model `CP in the Dark'. The Higgs sector of the model consists of two scalar doublets and one scalar singlet with a specific…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Lisa Biermann , Margarete Mühlleitner , Jonas Müller

The entropy production scenarios due to electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the framework of the minimal extension of standard model namely two Higgs doublet model(2HDM) is revisited. The possibility of first order phase transition is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-25 Arnab Chaudhuri , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Shiladitya Porey

A strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) is essential for explaining baryogenesis and for potentially generating observable gravitational waves. This study investigates the potential of a high-energy muon collider to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Mohamed Aboudonia , Csaba Balazs , Andreas Papaefstathiou , Graham White

In an extension of the Standard Model with a scalar color octet, the possibility of the strongly first-order electroweak phase transition is studied, by examining the finite-temperature effective Higgs potential at the one-loop level. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 S. W. Ham , Seong-a Shim , S. K. Oh

We investigate the possibility of realizing strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) in an effective field theory framework where the Standard Model is extended with a complex scalar singlet ($\phi$) charged under a local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Arka Bhattacharyya , Sanjoy Biswas , Saurabh Niyogi

We study the Electroweak phase transition with the Standard Model effective field theory at finite temperature and finite density. Utilizing the dimensional reduction approach, we construct the tree dimensional thermal effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-03 Renhui Qin , Ligong Bian