The Higgs vacuum uplifted: revisiting the electroweak phase transition with a second Higgs doublet

Autor: G. C. Dorsch, S. J. Huber, K. Mimasu, J. M. No
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2017, Iss 12, Pp 1-32 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2017)086
Popis: Abstract The existence of a second Higgs doublet in Nature could lead to a cosmological first order electroweak phase transition and explain the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. We explore the parameter space of such a two-Higgs-doublet-model and show that a first order electroweak phase transition strongly correlates with a significant uplifting of the Higgs vacuum w.r.t. its Standard Model value. We then obtain the spectrum and properties of the new scalars H 0, A 0 and H ± that signal such a phase transition, showing that the decay A 0 → H 0 Z at the LHC and a sizable deviation in the Higgs self-coupling λ hhh from its SM value are sensitive indicators of a strongly first order electroweak phase transition in the 2HDM.
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