Published November 30, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

First-order electroweak phase transition powered by additional F-term loop effects in an extended supersymmetric Higgs sector

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555 (Japan)
  • 2. Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (China)
  • 3. Korea Institute for Advanced Study, School of Physics, 85 Hoegiro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-722 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 4. Division of Liberal Arts, Kogakuin University, 1-24-2 Shinjuku, Tokyo 163-8677 (Japan)

Description

We investigate the one-loop effect of new charged scalar bosons on the Higgs potential at finite temperatures in the supersymmetric standard model with four Higgs doublet chiral superfields as well as a pair of charged singlet chiral superfields. In this model, the mass of the lightest Higgs boson h is determined only by the D-term in the Higgs potential at the tree-level, while the triple Higgs boson coupling for hhh can receive a significant radiative correction due to nondecoupling one-loop contributions of the additional charged scalar bosons. We find that the same nondecoupling mechanism can also contribute to realize stronger first order electroweak phase transition than that in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, which is definitely required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. Therefore, this model can be a new candidate for a model in which the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is explained at the electroweak scale.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.046

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.046;
arXiv
arXiv:1109.5226v2;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01300-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
706
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 40-45
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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