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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

First-order phase transitions exist in many models beyond the Standard Model and can generate detectable stochastic gravitational waves for a strong one. Using the cosmological observables in big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Yang Bai , Mrunal Korwar

We study phase transitions in a softly broken $U(1)$ complex singlet scalar model in which the dark matter is the pseudo-scalar part of a singlet whose direct detection coupling to matter is strongly suppressed. Our aim is to find ways to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-03 Kristjan Kannike , Martti Raidal

Probing the Higgs potential and new physics behind the electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important issues of particle physics. In particular, nature of electroweak phase transition is essential for understanding physics at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-21 Katsuya Hashino , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Toshinori Matsui

We investigate an extension of the Standard Model containing two Higgs doublets and a singlet scalar field (2HDSM). We show that the model can have a strongly first-order phase transition and give rise to the observed baryon asymmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tommi Alanne , Kimmo Kainulainen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

This overview of the study arXiv:2407.18845, regarding the possibility of generating gravitational waves from a curvature-induced phase transition of a non-minimally coupled scalar dark matter field with a Higgs-portal, was showcased at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Andreas Mantziris

A dark sector is an interesting place where a strong first-order phase transition, observable gravitational waves and/or a dark matter candidate could arise. However, the experimental tests for such a dark sector could be ambiguous due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-21 Shinya Kanemura , Shao-Ping Li

In the singlet Majoron model, we study cosmological phase transitions (PTs) and their resulting gravitational waves (GWs), in the two-field phase space, without freezing any of the field directions. We first calculate the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-14 Youping Wan , Batool Imtiaz , Yi-Fu Cai

In the ``Type-II'' regime, $m_{\rm Higgs}\gap m_{\rm gauge}$, the finite-temperature phase transition in spontaneously-broken gauge theories (including the standard model) must be be studied using a renormalization group treatment. Previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 John March-Russell

We consider an extension of the Standard Model that explains the neutrino masses and has a rich dark matter phenomenology. The model has two dark matter candidates, a vector WIMP and a fermion FIMP, and the sum of their relic densities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Francesco Costa , Sarif Khan , Jinsu Kim

We discuss the gravitational wave spectrum produced by first-order phase transitions seeded by domain wall networks. This setup is important for many two-step phase transitions as seen for example in the singlet extension of the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Simone Blasi , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg

We consider an extension of the Standard Model that accounts for the muon $g-2$ tension and neutrino masses and study in detail dark matter phenomenology. The model under consideration includes a WIMP and a FIMP scalar dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Costa , Sarif Khan , Jinsu Kim

We investigate the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) within the inverted Type-I two-Higgs-doublet model, where the observed $125\,\text{GeV}$ Higgs boson is identified as the heavier \textit{CP}-even scalar $H$. Through a comprehensive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Soojin Lee , Dongjoo Kim , Jin-Hwan Cho , Jinheung Kim , Jeonghyeon Song

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

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

Based on the gauge symmetry group $SU(3)_C\otimes{SU(2)_L}\otimes{U(1)_Y}\otimes{U(1)_{B-L}}$, the minimal supersymmetric extension of the SM with local B-L gauge symmetry(B-LSSM) has been introduced. In this model, we study the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Xing-Xing Dong , Tai-Fu Feng , Hai-Bin Zhang , Shu-Min Zhao , Jin-Lei Yang

We study a dynamical freeze-in production of the dark matter considering the electroweak phase transition history of the Universe. The kinematical thresholds of the decay and scattering processes for the dark matter production can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Ligong Bian , Xuewen Liu

We explore the emissions of the Gravitational Waves (GWs) from a strong first-order ekectroweak phase transition. To this end, a dark matter model has been investigated in Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP) scenario, where the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-24 Madhurima Pandey , Avik Paul

We study a scenario where the Standard Model is extended by a SU(2) gauge group in the dark sector. The three associated dark gauge bosons are stabilised via a custodial symmetry triggered by an additional dark SU(2) scalar doublet, thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Nico Benincasa , Luigi Delle Rose , Luca Panizzi , Maimoona Razzaq , Savio Urzetta

We explore the origin of Majorana masses within the majoron model and how this can lead to the generation of a distinguishable primordial stochastic background of gravitational waves. We first show how in the simplest majoron model only a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-25 Pasquale Di Bari , Stephen F. King , Moinul Hossain Rahat