Phase of confined electroweak force in the early Universe

Berger, Joshua; Long, Andrew J.; Turner, Jessica

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055005

Title: Phase of confined electroweak force in the early Universe

Journal Article · Fri Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055005· OSTI ID:1560728

Berger, Joshua; Long, Andrew J.; Turner, Jessica

We consider a modified cosmological history in which the presence of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics causes the weak gauge sector, SU(2)L, to confine before it is Higgsed. Under the assumption of chiral symmetry breaking, quark and lepton weak doublets form condensates that break the global symmetries of the Standard Model, including baryon and lepton number, down to a U(1) subgroup under which only the weak singlet fermions and Higgs transform. The weakly-coupled gauge group SU(3)c×U(1)Y is also broken to an SU(2)c×U(1)Q gauge group. The light states include (pseudo-)Goldstone bosons of the global symmetry breaking, mostly-elementary fermions primarily composed of the weak singlet quarks and leptons, and the gauge bosons of the weakly-coupled gauge group. We discuss possible signatures from early Universe cosmology including gravitational wave radiation, topological defects, and baryogenesis.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0007859; AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1560728

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1546013; OSTI ID: 1774089

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1906.05157; FERMILAB-PUB-19-269-T; PITT-PACC-1903; PRVDAQ; 055005

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 100 Journal Issue: 5; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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