Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-10-03
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor changes, journal version
Scientific paper
We consider the 2-loop finite temperature effective potential for a Standard Model-like Higgs boson, allowing Higgs boson couplings to additional scalars. If the scalars transform under color, they contribute 2-loop diagrams to the effective potential that include gluons. These 2-loop effects are perhaps stronger than previously appreciated. For a Higgs boson mass of 115 GeV, they can increase the strength of the phase transition by as much as a factor of 3.5. It is the analogue of this effect that is responsible for the survival of the tenuous electroweak baryogenesis window of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We further illuminate the importance of these 2-loop diagrams by contrasting models with colored scalars to models with singlet scalars. We conclude that baryogenesis favors models with light colored scalars. This motivates searches for pair-produced di-jet resonances or jet(s) + missing energy.
Cohen Timothy
Pierce Aaron
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