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The Electroweak Phase Transition in the MSSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

The construction of an effective 3D theory at high temperatures for the MSSM as a model of electroweak baryogenesis is discussed. The analysis for a single light scalar field shows, that given the experimental constraints, there is no value of the Higgs mass for which a sufficiently first-order phase transition is obtained. A precise determination of the 3D parameters of the effective theory for the case of a light right-handed stop allows us to obtain an upper bound on the masses of the lightest Higgs and right-handed stop using the two-loop effective potential. A two-stage phase transition persists for a small range of values of mt~Rm_{\tilde{t}_{R}}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808439,
  title  = {The Electroweak Phase Transition in the MSSM},
  author = {Marta Losada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808439},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures. Talk given at the Quarks98 conference in Suzdal, Russia, May 1998

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