Nucleation is more than critical: A case study of the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM
Abstract
Electroweak baryogenesis is an attractive mechanism to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via a strong first order electroweak phase transition. We compare the phase transition patterns suggested by the vacuum structure at the critical temperatures, at which local minima are degenerate, with those obtained from computing the probability for nucleation via tunneling through the barrier separating local minima. Heuristically, nucleation becomes difficult if the barrier between the local minima is too high, or if the distance (in field space) between the minima is too large. As an example of a model exhibiting such behavior, we study the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, whose scalar sector contains two SU(2) doublets and one gauge singlet. We find that the calculation of the nucleation probabilities prefers different regions of parameter space for a strong first order electroweak phase transition than the calculation based solely on the critical temperatures. Our results demonstrate that analyzing only the vacuum structure via the critical temperatures can provide a misleading picture of the phase transition patterns, and, in turn, of the parameter space suitable for electroweak baryogenesis.
- Authors:
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- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI (United States)
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Swedish Research Council (VR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1735357
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1706154; OSTI ID: 1785484; OSTI ID: 1821680
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-20-490-T; EFI-20-18; WSU-HEP-2004; arXiv:2009.10743
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; TRN: US2205211
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009924; PHY-1720397; FG02-13ER41958; GBMF7946; 638-2013-8993; SC0007983; AC02-07CH11359; AC02-06CH11357; PHY-1607611; 100495
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2021; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric Standard Model
Citation Formats
Baum, Sebastian, Carena, Marcela, Shah, Nausheen R., Wagner, Carlos E. M., and Wang, Yikun. Nucleation is more than critical: A case study of the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2021)055.
Baum, Sebastian, Carena, Marcela, Shah, Nausheen R., Wagner, Carlos E. M., & Wang, Yikun. Nucleation is more than critical: A case study of the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2021)055
Baum, Sebastian, Carena, Marcela, Shah, Nausheen R., Wagner, Carlos E. M., and Wang, Yikun. Thu .
"Nucleation is more than critical: A case study of the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2021)055. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1735357.
@article{osti_1735357,
title = {Nucleation is more than critical: A case study of the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM},
author = {Baum, Sebastian and Carena, Marcela and Shah, Nausheen R. and Wagner, Carlos E. M. and Wang, Yikun},
abstractNote = {Electroweak baryogenesis is an attractive mechanism to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via a strong first order electroweak phase transition. We compare the phase transition patterns suggested by the vacuum structure at the critical temperatures, at which local minima are degenerate, with those obtained from computing the probability for nucleation via tunneling through the barrier separating local minima. Heuristically, nucleation becomes difficult if the barrier between the local minima is too high, or if the distance (in field space) between the minima is too large. As an example of a model exhibiting such behavior, we study the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, whose scalar sector contains two SU(2) doublets and one gauge singlet. We find that the calculation of the nucleation probabilities prefers different regions of parameter space for a strong first order electroweak phase transition than the calculation based solely on the critical temperatures. Our results demonstrate that analyzing only the vacuum structure via the critical temperatures can provide a misleading picture of the phase transition patterns, and, in turn, of the parameter space suitable for electroweak baryogenesis.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep03(2021)055},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 3,
volume = 2021,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Thu Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2021}
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