First order color symmetry breaking and restoration triggered by electroweak symmetry non-restoration

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2023.138430arXiv2112.13580MaRDI QIDQ6194906

Huai-Ke Guo, Xiu-Fei Li, Wei Chao

Publication date: 12 March 2024

Published in: Unnamed Author (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we propose a new approach for the spontaneous breaking and restoration of the $SU(3)_C$ color symmetry in the framework of electroweak symmetry non-restoration (EWSNR) at high temperature, which provides an alternative approach for the Baryogenesis. Due to the exotic high vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the SM Higgs doublet in EWSNR, the color symmetry can be spontaneous broken succeeding the electroweak phase transition whenever there is a negative quartic coupling between the SM Higgs and a scalar color triplet. The color symmetry is then restored at low temperature as the VEV of SM Higgs evolving to small value. We show that the phase transitions related to color breaking and restoration can be first order, and the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) signals are smoking-gun of these processes. We demonstrate the possibility of detecting these GW signals in future GW experiments such as DECIGO and BBO.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13580

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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