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The extension of the standard model by a real gauge singlet scalar is the simplest but the most studied model with sometimes controversial ideas on the ability of the model to address the dark matter and the electroweak phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-08 Karim Ghorbani , Parsa Hossein Ghorbani

In this Letter, we propose a new possible connection between dark matter relic density and baryon asymmetry of the universe. The portal between standard model sector and dark matter not only controls the relic density and detections of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Miha Nemevsek , Goran Senjanovic , Yue Zhang

Employing effective field theory techniques, we advance computations of thermal parameters that enter predictions for the gravitational wave spectra from first-order electroweak phase transitions. Working with the real-singlet-extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Van Que Tran

We suggest an appealing strategy to probe a large class of scenarios beyond the Standard Model simultaneously explaining the recent CDF II measurement of the $W$ boson mass and predicting first-order phase transitions (FOPT) testable in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 Andrea Addazi , Antonino Marciano , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik , Hao Yang

We study some implications of the presence of two inert scalar doublets which are charged under a dark Abelian gauge symmetry. Specifically, we investigate the effects of the new scalars on oblique electroweak parameters and on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-04 Amine Ahriche , Gaber Faisel , Shu-Yu Ho , Salah Nasri , Jusak Tandean

We explore the possibility of detecting gravitational waves generated by first order phase transitions in multiple dark sectors. Nnaturalness is taken as a sample model that features multiple additional sectors, many of which undergo phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-25 Paul Archer-Smith , Dylan Linthorne , Daniel Stolarski

We consider the possibility of a gravitational wave signal in an asymmetric dark matter model. In this model a generative sector produces both the baryon asymmetry and a dark matter asymmetry in a strong first-order phase transtion. Bubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Iason Baldes

We present an updated analysis of the first-order phase transition associated with symmetry breaking in the early Universe in a classically scale-invariant model extended with a new SU(2) gauge group. Including recent developments in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-03 Maciej Kierkla , Alexandros Karam , Bogumila Swiezewska

We forecast the prospective of detection for a stochastic gravitational wave background sourced by cosmological first-order phase transitions. We focus on first-order phase transitions with negligible plasma effects, and consider the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Daniel G. Figueroa , Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mauro Pieroni , Mariano Quiros , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We made global fits of the inert Higgs doublet model (IDM) in the light of collider and dark matter search limits and the requirement for a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT). These show that there are still IDM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Shehu AbdusSalam , Leila Kalhor , Mohammad Mohammadidoust

The thermal freeze-out mechanism in its classical form is tightly connected to physics beyond the Standard Model around the electroweak scale, which has been the target of enormous experimental efforts. In this work we study a dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Torsten Bringmann , Tomás E. Gonzalo , Felix Kahlhoefer , Jonas Matuszak , Carlo Tasillo

We discuss the possibility to indirectly test First Order Phase Transitions of hidden sectors. We study the interesting example of a {\it dark standard model} with a deformed parameter space in the Higgs potential. A dark electroweak phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Andrea Addazi

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

We investigate first order phase transitions in a holographic setting of five-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field, constructing phase diagrams of the dual field theory at finite temperature. We scan over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Fëanor Reuben Ares , Mark Hindmarsh , Carlos Hoyos , Niko Jokela

The single Higgs doublet in the standard model (SM) may be the simplest way of introducing electroweak symmetry breaking, but SM extensions with more scalar doublets are not excluded. A special case of the two Higgs doublet models is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-10 Michael Gustafsson

The inert doublet model is a two-Higgs-doublet extension of the standard model that provides a minimal and versatile framework for frozen-out dark matter. Assuming standard cosmology, if the dark matter mass ranges between approximately 120…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Geneviève Bélanger , Nicolás Bernal , Andreas Goudelis , Alexander Pukhov

We study the occurrence of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition in composite Higgs models. Minimal constructions realising this scenario are based on the coset SO(6)/SO(5) which delivers an extended Higgs sector with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Giuliano Panico

Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

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 consider the Type-II seesaw model extended with another Higgs doublet, which is odd under the $Z_2$ symmetry. We look for the possibility of triggering the electroweak symmetry breaking via radiative effects. The Higgs mass parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-11 Shilpa Jangid , Hiroshi Okada