Electroweak relaxation from finite temperature

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2015)077zbMATH Open1388.81825arXiv1507.07525OpenAlexW3098373978MaRDI QIDQ2636099FDOQ2636099

Authors: Edward Hardy 

Publication date: 31 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study theories which naturally select a vacuum with parametrically small Electroweak Scale due to finite temperature effects in the early universe. In particular, there is a scalar with an approximate shift symmetry broken by a technically natural small coupling to the Higgs, and a temperature dependent potential. As the temperature of the universe drops, the scalar follows the minimum of its potential altering the Higgs mass squared parameter. The scalar also has a periodic potential with amplitude proportional to the Higgs expectation value, which traps it in a vacuum with a small Electroweak Scale. The required temperature dependence of the potential can occur through strong coupling effects in a hidden sector that are suppressed at high temperatures. Alternatively, it can be generated perturbatively from a one-loop thermal potential. In both cases, for the scalar to be displaced, a hidden sector must be reheated to temperatures significantly higher than the visible sector. However this does not violate observational constraints provided the hidden sector energy density is transferred to the visible sector without disrupting big bang nucleosynthesis. We also study how the mechanism can be implemented when the visible sector is completed to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model at a high scale. Models with a UV cutoff of 10 TeV and no fields taking values over a range greater than 10^12 GeV are possible, although the scalar must have a range of order 10^8 times the effective decay constant in the periodic part of its potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07525

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelHiggs physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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