Electroweak phase transition confronted with dark matter detection constraints

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/035MaRDI QIDQ5025281zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cheng-Wei Chiang, Da Huang, Boqiang Lü

Publication date 1 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08635

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological phase transitionsdark matter experimentsdark matter theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle decays (81U90) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: We study the type-II first-order electroweak phase transition and dark matter (DM) phenomenology in both real and complex singlet extensions of SM. In the real singlet extension with a $mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry, we show that the parameter regions favored by the phase transition suffer from strong constraints from DM direct detection so that only a negligible fraction ($f_{X}sim10^{-4}-10^{-5}$) of DM composed of the real singlet scalar can survive the LUX and XENON1T constraints. In the complex singlet $S$ case, we impose a $CP$ symmetry $So{S}^{\ast }$ to the scalar potential. The real component of $S$ can mix with SM Higgs boson while the imaginary component becomes a DM candidate due to the protection of the $CP$ symmetry. By taking into account the current experimental constraints of invisible Higgs decays, Higgs signal strength measurements, and dark matter detections, we find that there exists a large parameter space for the type-II electroweak phase transition to occur while explaining all of the dark matter relic density. We identify a subset of parameter space that is promising for future experiments, including the di-Higgs and Higgs signal strength measurements at the HL-LHC and the dark matter direct detection in the XENONnT project.

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