Strong phase transition, dark matter and vacuum stability from simple hidden sectors

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.11.001zbMATH Open1326.81256arXiv1407.0688OpenAlexW2001882707WikidataQ108801689 ScholiaQ108801689MaRDI QIDQ895376FDOQ895376

Authors: Tommi Alanne, Kimmo Tuominen, Ville Vaskonen 

Publication date: 2 December 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the possibility to explain dark matter abundance and strong electroweak phase transition, we consider simple extensions of the Standard Model containing singlet fields coupled with the Standard Model via a scalar portal. Concretely, we consider a basic portal model consisting of a singlet scalar with $Z_2$ symmetry and a model containing a singlet fermion connected with the Standard Model fields via a singlet scalar portal. We perform a Monte Carlo analysis of the parameter space of each model, and we find that in both cases the dark matter abundance can be produced either via freeze-out or freeze-in mechanisms, but only in the latter model one can obtain also a strong electroweak phase transition required by the successful electroweak baryogenesis. We impose the direct search limits and consider systematically the possibility that the model produces only a subdominant portion of the dark matter abundance. We also study the renormalization group evolution of the couplings of the model to determine if the scalar sector of the model remains stable and perturbative up to high scales. With explicit examples of benchmark values of the couplings at weak scale, we show that this is possible. Models of this type are further motivated by the possibility that the excursions of the Higgs field at the end of inflation are large and could directly probe the instability region of the Standard Model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0688

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zbMATH Keywords

strong electroweak phase transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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