scholarly journals Electroweak symmetry non-restoration from dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Matsedonskyi ◽  
James Unwin ◽  
Qingyun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Mass ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
New States ◽  
Potential Remedy

Abstract Restoration of the electroweak symmetry at temperatures around the Higgs mass is linked to tight phenomenological constraints on many baryogenesis scenarios. A potential remedy can be found in mechanisms of electroweak symmetry non-restoration (SNR), in which symmetry breaking is extended to higher temperatures due to new states with couplings to the Standard Model. Here we show that, in the presence of a second Higgs doublet, SNR can be realized with only a handful of new fermions which can be identified as viable dark matter candidates consistent with all current observational constraints. The competing requirements on this class of models allow for SNR at temperatures up to ∼TeV, and imply the presence of sub-TeV new physics with sizable interactions with the Standard Model. As a result this scenario is highly testable with signals in reach of next-generation collider and dark matter direct detection experiments.

scholarly journals Is SMEFT enough?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Cohen ◽  
Nathaniel Craig ◽  
Xiaochuan Lu ◽  
Dave Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Goldstone Bosons ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract There are two canonical approaches to treating the Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory (EFT): Standard Model EFT (SMEFT), expressed in the electroweak symmetric phase utilizing the Higgs doublet, and Higgs EFT (HEFT), expressed in the broken phase utilizing the physical Higgs boson and an independent set of Goldstone bosons. HEFT encompasses SMEFT, so understanding whether SMEFT is sufficient motivates identifying UV theories that require HEFT as their low energy limit. This distinction is complicated by field redefinitions that obscure the naive differences between the two EFTs. By reformulating the question in a geometric language, we derive concrete criteria that can be used to distinguish SMEFT from HEFT independent of the chosen field basis. We highlight two cases where perturbative new physics must be matched onto HEFT: (i) the new particles derive all of their mass from electroweak symmetry breaking, and (ii) there are additional sources of electroweak symmetry breaking. Additionally, HEFT has a broader practical application: it can provide a more convergent parametrization when new physics lies near the weak scale. The ubiquity of models requiring HEFT suggests that SMEFT is not enough.

scholarly journals New physics explanations of aμ in light of the FNAL muon g − 2 measurement

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Athron ◽  
Csaba Balázs ◽  
Douglas H. J. Jacob ◽  
Wojciech Kotlarski ◽  
Dominik Stöckinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Average Deviation ◽  
Dark Matter Relic Density ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Parameter Ranges

Abstract The Fermilab Muon g −2 experiment recently reported its first measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment $$ {a}_{\mu}^{\mathrm{FNAL}} $$ a μ FNAL , which is in full agreement with the previous BNL measurement and pushes the world average deviation $$ \Delta {a}_{\mu}^{2021} $$ ∆ a μ 2021 from the Standard Model to a significance of 4.2σ. Here we provide an extensive survey of its impact on beyond the Standard Model physics. We use state-of-the-art calculations and a sophisticated set of tools to make predictions for aμ, dark matter and LHC searches in a wide range of simple models with up to three new fields, that represent some of the few ways that large ∆aμ can be explained. In addition for the particularly well motivated Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, we exhaustively cover the scenarios where large ∆aμ can be explained while simultaneously satisfying all relevant data from other experiments. Generally, the aμ result can only be explained by rather small masses and/or large couplings and enhanced chirality flips, which can lead to conflicts with limits from LHC and dark matter experiments. Our results show that the new measurement excludes a large number of models and provides crucial constraints on others. Two-Higgs doublet and leptoquark models provide viable explanations of aμ only in specific versions and in specific parameter ranges. Among all models with up to three fields, only models with chirality enhancements can accommodate aμ and dark matter simultaneously. The MSSM can simultaneously explain aμ and dark matter for Bino-like LSP in several coannihilation regions. Allowing under abundance of the dark matter relic density, the Higgsino- and particularly Wino-like LSP scenarios become promising explanations of the aμ result.

BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (30) ◽  
pp. 5502-5512
Author(s):  
D. I. KAZAKOV
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Recent Developments

Review of recent developments in attempts to go beyond the Standard Model is given. We concentrate on three main unresolved problems: mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking, expected new physics at the TeV scale (mainly SUSY) and the origin of the Dark matter.

scholarly journals Signatures of Majorana dark matter with t-channel mediators

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (07) ◽  
pp. 1530019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Garny ◽  
Alejandro Ibarra ◽  
Stefan Vogl
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Majorana Fermion ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Full Benefit ◽  
Near Future

Three main strategies are being pursued to search for nongravitational dark matter signals: direct detection, indirect detection and collider searches. Interestingly, experiments have reached sensitivities in these three search strategies which may allow detection in the near future. In order to take full benefit of the wealth of experimental data, and in order to confirm a possible dark matter signal, it is necessary to specify the nature of the dark matter particle and of the mediator to the Standard Model. In this paper, we focus on a simplified model where the dark matter particle is a Majorana fermion that couples to a light Standard Model fermion via a Yukawa coupling with a scalar mediator. We review the observational signatures of this model and we discuss the complementarity among the various search strategies, with emphasis in the well motivated scenario where the dark matter particles are produced in the early universe via thermal freeze-out.

scholarly journals The dark phases of the N2HDM

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabell Engeln ◽  
Pedro Ferreira ◽  
M. Margarete Mühlleitner ◽  
Rui Santos ◽  
Jonas Wittbrodt
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Vacuum Structure ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Doublet Model ◽  
Specific Phase

Abstract We discuss the dark phases of the Next-to-2-Higgs Doublet model. The model is an extension of the Standard Model with an extra doublet and an extra singlet that has four distinct CP-conserving phases, three of which provide dark matter candidates. We discuss in detail the vacuum structure of the different phases and the issue of stability at tree-level of each phase. Taking into account the most relevant experimental and theoretical constraints, we found that there are combinations of measurements at the Large Hadron Collider that could single out a specific phase. The measurement of h125 → γγ together with the discovery of a new scalar with specific rates to τ+τ− or γγ could exclude some phases and point to a specific phase.

ONE LOOP-INDUCED WZH COUPLING IN THE TWO HIGGS DOUBLET MODEL

1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (28) ◽  
pp. 2757-2766 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS G. RIZZO
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Charged Higgs ◽  
Doublet Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Two Higgs Doublet Model

Although absent at the tree level in models with only doublet and singlet Higgs representations, the WZH coupling can be induced at the one-loop level. We examine the size of this induced coupling in the two Higgs doublet model due to fermion as well as Higgs/gauge boson loops. Such couplings could provide a new mechanism for charged Higgs production at colliders and are ‘backgrounds’ to new physics beyond the Standard Model. We find, however, that these couplings are very weak for all regions of the parameter space explored.

scholarly journals Detailed study of the Λb → Λcτν̄τ decay

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (29) ◽  
pp. 1850169 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Di Salvo ◽  
F. Fontanelli ◽  
Z. J. Ajaltouni
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Semileptonic Decay ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Analogous Formula ◽  
Two Higgs Doublet Model

We examine in detail the semileptonic decay [Formula: see text], which may confirm previous hints, from the analogous [Formula: see text] decay, of a new physics beyond the Standard Model. First of all, starting from rather general assumptions, we predict the partial width of the decay. Then we analyze the effects of five possible new physics interactions, adopting in each case five different form factors. In particular, for each term beyond the Standard Model, we find some constraints on the strength and phase of the coupling, which we combine with those found by other authors in analyzing the analogous semileptonic decays of [Formula: see text]. Our analysis involves some dimensionless quantities, substantially independent of the form factor, but which, owing to the constraints, turn out to be strongly sensitive to the kind of nonstandard interaction. We also introduce a criterion thanks to which one can discriminate among the various new physics terms: the left-handed current and the two-Higgs-doublet model appear privileged, with a neat preference for the former interaction. Finally, we suggest a differential observable that could, in principle, help to distinguish between the two cases.

SEARCHING FOR AXIONS AND OTHER EXOTICS WITH DARK MATTER DETECTORS

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 564-572
Author(s):  
MAXIM POSPELOV
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Annual Modulation ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Detection Capabilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Particle Decays ◽  
O 10

I consider models of light super-weakly interacting cold dark matter, with [Formula: see text] mass, focusing on bosonic candidates such as pseudoscalars and vectors. I analyze the cosmological abundance, the γ-background created by particle decays, the impact on stellar processes due to cooling, and the direct detection capabilities in order to identify classes of models that pass all the constraints. In certain models, variants of photoelectric (or axioelectric) absorption of dark matter in direct-detection experiments can provide a sensitivity to the superweak couplings to the Standard Model which is superior to all existing indirect constraints. In all models studied, the annual modulation of the direct-detection signal is at the currently unobservable level of O(10-5).

scholarly journals Towards completing the standard model: Vacuum stability, electroweak symmetry breaking, and dark matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emidio Gabrielli ◽  
Matti Heikinheimo ◽  
Kristjan Kannike ◽  
Antonio Racioppi ◽  
Martti Raidal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Vacuum Stability ◽  
The Standard Model

scholarly journals ANOMALOUS HIGGS COUPLINGS

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 3121-3156 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. GONZALEZ-GARCIA
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Boson Production ◽  
Gauge Bosons ◽  
Effective Interactions ◽  
Decay Modes ◽  
Effective Lagrangian ◽  
The Standard Model

We review the effects of new effective interactions on Higgs-boson phenomenology. New physics in the electroweak bosonic sector is expected to induce additional interactions between the Higgs doublet field and the electroweak gauge bosons, leading to anomalous Higgs couplings as well as anomalous gauge-boson self-interactions. Using a linearly realized SU (2)L× U (1)Y invariant effective Lagrangian to describe the bosonic sector of the Standard Model, we review the effects of the new effective interactions on the Higgs-boson production rates and decay modes. We summarize the results from searches for the new Higgs signatures induced by the anomalous interactions in order to constrain the scale of new physics, in particular at CERN LEP and Fermilab Tevatron colliders.

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