Enabling electroweak baryogenesis through dark matter

Autor(en)
Marek Lewicki , Tanja Rindler-Daller, James D. Wells
Abstrakt

Abstract: We study the impact on electroweak baryogenesis from a swifter cosmological expansion induced by dark matter. We detail the experimental bounds that one can place on models that realize it, and we investigate the modifications of these bounds that result from a non-standard cosmological history. The modifications can be sizeable if the expansion rate of the Universe increases by several orders of magnitude. We illustrate the impact through the example of scalar field dark matter, which can alter the cosmological history enough to enable a strong-enough first-order phase transition in the Standard Model when it is supplemented by a dimension six operator directly modifying the Higgs boson potential. We show that due to the modified cosmological history, electroweak baryogenesis can be realized, while keeping deviations of the triple Higgs coupling below HL-LHC sensitivies. The required scale of new physics to effectuate a strong-enough first order phase transition can change by as much as twenty percent as the expansion rate increases by six orders of magnitude.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Warsaw, University of Michigan
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Band
2016
Anzahl der Seiten
21
ISSN
1029-8479
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)055
Publikationsdatum
06-2016
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103034 Teilchenphysik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/e2848e80-d7f6-4489-b37b-7443604b96d4