scholarly journals Thermal QCD Axions across Thresholds

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco D’Eramo ◽  
Fazlollah Hajkarim ◽  
Seokhoon Yun
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Higgs Bosons ◽  
Effective Number ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Dark Radiation ◽  
Qcd Phase Transition ◽  
Specific Focus

Abstract Thermal axion production in the early universe goes through several mass thresholds, and the resulting rate may change dramatically across them. Focusing on the KSVZ and DFSZ frameworks for the invisible QCD axion, we perform a systematic analysis of thermal production across thresholds and provide smooth results for the rate. The QCD phase transition is an obstacle for both classes of models. For the hadronic KSVZ axion, we also deal with production at temperatures around the mass of the heavy-colored fermion charged under the Peccei-Quinn symmetry. Within the DFSZ framework, standard model fermions are charged under this symmetry, and additional thresholds are the heavy Higgs bosons masses and the electroweak phase transition. We investigate the cosmological implications with a specific focus on axion dark radiation quantified by an effective number of neutrino species and explore the discovery reach of future CMB-S4 surveys.

Ring-diagram summations in the finite-temperature effective potential

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Potential ◽  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
First Order ◽  
Ring Diagram ◽  
First Order Phase Transition ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The One

There has been much recent interest in the finite-temperature effective potential of the standard model in the context of the electroweak phase transition. We review the calculation of the effective potential with particular emphasis on the validity of the expansions that are used. The presence of a term that is cubic in the Higgs condensate in the one-loop effective potential appears to indicate a first-order electroweak phase transition. However, in the high-temperature regime, the infrared singularities inherent in massless models produce cubic terms that are of the same order in the coupling. In this paper, we discuss the inclusion of an infinite set of these terms via the ring-diagram summation, and show that the standard model has a first-order phase transition in the weak coupling expansion.

scholarly journals F(R) gravity in the early Universe: electroweak phase transition and chameleon mechanism

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 105101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taishi Katsuragawa ◽  
Shinya Matsuzaki ◽  
Eibun Senaha
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
Chameleon Mechanism

scholarly journals Low temperature electroweak phase transition in the Standard Model with hidden scale invariance

2018 ◽  
Vol 776 ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suntharan Arunasalam ◽  
Archil Kobakhidze ◽  
Cyril Lagger ◽  
Shelley Liang ◽  
Albert Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Scale Invariance ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
The Standard Model

scholarly journals Limiting first-order phase transitions in dark gauge sectors from gravitational waves experiments

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (08) ◽  
pp. 1750049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Addazi
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Higgs Potential ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
First Order ◽  
First Order Phase

We discuss the possibility to indirectly test first-order phase transitions of hidden sectors. We study the interesting example of a Dark Standard Model (D-SM) with a deformed parameter space in the Higgs potential. A dark electroweak phase transition can be limited from next future experiments like eLISA and DECIGO.

NUCLEON PROPERTIES IN THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (02n06) ◽  
pp. 374-383
Author(s):  
W-Y. PAUCHY HWANG
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Mass Formula ◽  
The State ◽  
Nucleon Mass ◽  
Expanding Universe ◽  
Qcd Phase Transition ◽  
Qcd Vacuum ◽  
The Universe

Our universe expands and cools. The electroweak (EW) phase transition, which endows masses to the various particles, and QCD phase transition, which gives rise to confinement of quarks and gluons within hadrons in the true QCD vacuum, Would presumably have taken place in the early universe, respectively, at around 10-11 sec and at a time between 10-5 sec and 10-4 sec, or at the temperature of about 300 GeV and of about 150 MeV, respectively. It is clear that the nucleon mass [Formula: see text], the axial coupling [Formula: see text], and other nucleon parameters evolve as the universe evolves, thereby serving as an important gauge for understanding the state of the Universe.

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