The electro-weak phase transition at colliders: confronting theoretical uncertainties and complementary channels

Abstract We explore and contrast the capabilities of future colliders to probe the nature of the electro-weak phase transition. We focus on the real singlet scalar field extension of the Standard Model, representing the most minimal, yet most elusive, framework that can enable a strong first-order electro-weak phase transition. By taking into account the theoretical uncertainties and employing the powerful complementarity between gauge and Higgs boson pair channels in the searches for new scalar particles, we find that a 100 TeV proton collider has the potential to confirm or falsify a strong first-order transition. Our results hint towards this occurring relatively early in its lifetime. Furthermore, by extrapolating down to 27 TeV, we find that a lower-energy collider may also probe a large fraction of the parameter space, if not all. Such early discoveries would allow for precise measurements of the new phenomena to be obtained at future colliders and would pave the way to definitively verify whether this is indeed the physical remnant of a scalar field that catalyses a strong first-order transition.

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Dynamic Light Scattering of the Fluid-Fluid Phase Transition in the Vicinity of the Critical Solution Point and in the First Order Transition Region

Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie ◽

10.1002/bbpc.198800208 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 92 (8) ◽

pp. 846-850 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

W. Schröer ◽

C. Rybarsch ◽

M. Strojny ◽

W. Staude

Keyword(s):

Phase Transition ◽

Light Scattering ◽

Dynamic Light Scattering ◽

Transition Region ◽

Fluid Phase ◽

Order Transition ◽

First Order ◽

Critical Solution Point ◽

Solution Point ◽

First Order Transition

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Untersuchung des M2/M3-Phasenübergangs in V1-xFexO2 mit x = 0,024.

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B ◽

10.1515/znb-1976-1015 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 31 (10) ◽

pp. 1367-1371 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Pebler ◽

K. Schmidt ◽

H. Wasinski

Keyword(s):

Phase Transition ◽

Isomer Shift ◽

Cell Volume ◽

Order Phase Transition ◽

Order Transition ◽

First Order ◽

First Order Phase Transition ◽

First Order Transition ◽

First Order Phase

The Mössbauer investigations of V1-xFexO2 with x = 0.024 indicate that Fe enters two cation positions of M2 and M3. At the phase transition the two quadrupole splittings show a discontinuous behavior whereas the isomer shift changes continuously with a crossingover at the M2, M3 transition (Tt′ = 275 K). Generally a first order phase transition is accompanied by a change of the cell volume V and a change of the isomer shift. The observed continuous behavior of the isomer shift points to a first order transition with δV ≠ 0.

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Statistical Mechanics of Biomembrane Phase Transition. II. The First Order Transition with Pseudo-Critical Properties

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan ◽

10.1143/jpsj.51.730 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 730-740 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Takeo Izuyama ◽

Yasuhiro Akutsu

Keyword(s):

Phase Transition ◽

Statistical Mechanics ◽

Order Transition ◽

Critical Properties ◽

First Order ◽

First Order Transition

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The Haus-Tanaka Model for the Ice VII-Ice VIII Phase Transition

Australian Journal of Physics ◽

10.1071/ph800107 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 107 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

J Ho-Ting-Hun ◽

J Oitmaa

Keyword(s):

Phase Transition ◽

Mean Field ◽

Field Approximation ◽

Order Transition ◽

Mean Field Approximation ◽

First Order ◽

Second Order Transition ◽

The Mean ◽

First Order Transition ◽

Temperature Susceptibility

The high temperature susceptibility series of the model proposed by Haus and Tanaka (1977) to account for the transition of the orientationally disordered ice VII phase to the orientationally ordered ice VIII phase does not provide evidence for the possible occurrence of a first-order transition, as predicted by the mean field approximation, but gives a second-order transition instead.

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