Electroweak Symmetry and its Breaking

10.1142/11883 ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Demina ◽  
Aran Garcia-Bellido
Keyword(s):  
Electroweak Symmetry

scholarly journals Interplay of New Physics effects in (g − 2)ℓ and h → ℓ+ℓ− — lessons from SMEFT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svjetlana Fajfer ◽  
Jernej F. Kamenik ◽  
M. Tammaro
Keyword(s):  
Closed Operator ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Scalar Leptoquark ◽  
Doublet Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Two Higgs Doublet Model

Abstract We explore the interplay of New Physics (NP) effects in (g− 2)ℓ and h→ℓ+ℓ− within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, including one-loop Renormalization Group (RG) evolution of the Wilson coefficients as well as matching to the observables below the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. We include both the leading dimension six chirality flipping operators including a Higgs and SU(2)L gauge bosons as well as four-fermion scalar and tensor operators, forming a closed operator set under the SMEFT RG equations. We compare present and future experimental sensitivity to different representative benchmark scenarios. We also consider two simple UV completions, a Two Higgs Doublet Model and a single scalar LeptoQuark extension of the SM, and show how tree level matching to SMEFT followed by the one-loop RG evolution down to the electroweak scale can reproduce with high accuracy the (g−2)ℓ and h→ℓ+ℓ− contributions obtained by the complete one- and even two-loop calculations in the full models.

scholarly journals A critical look at the electroweak phase transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Ekstedt ◽  
Johan Löfgren
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Generic Model ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
Gauge Dependence ◽  
Perturbative Methods ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Infrared Divergences ◽  
General Gauge

Abstract The electroweak phase transition broke the electroweak symmetry. Perturbative methods used to calculate observables related to this phase transition suffer from severe problems such as gauge dependence, infrared divergences, and a breakdown of perturbation theory. In this paper we develop robust perturbative tools for dealing with phase transitions. We argue that gauge and infrared problems are absent in a consistent power-counting. We calculate the finite temperature effective potential to two loops for general gauge-fixing parameters in a generic model. We demonstrate gauge invariance, and perform numerical calculations for the Standard Model in Fermi gauge.

scholarly journals Dark matter spectra from the electroweak to the Planck scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian W. Bauer ◽  
Nicholas L. Rodd ◽  
Bryan R. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Stable States ◽  
Decay Spectrum ◽  
Crucial Ingredient

Abstract We compute the decay spectrum for dark matter (DM) with masses above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, all the way to the Planck scale. For an arbitrary hard process involving a decay to the unbroken standard model, we determine the prompt distribution of stable states including photons, neutrinos, positrons, and antiprotons. These spectra are a crucial ingredient in the search for DM via indirect detection at the highest energies as being probed in current and upcoming experiments including IceCube, HAWC, CTA, and LHAASO. Our approach improves considerably on existing methods, for instance, we include all relevant electroweak interactions.

scholarly journals Electroweak symmetry breaking in the inverse seesaw mechanism

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjoy Mandal ◽  
Rahul Srivastava ◽  
José W. F. Valle
Keyword(s):  
Planck Scale ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Seesaw Mechanism ◽  
Yukawa Couplings ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Higgs Vacuum ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Stability

Abstract We investigate the stability of Higgs potential in inverse seesaw models. We derive the full two-loop RGEs of the relevant parameters, such as the quartic Higgs self-coupling, taking thresholds into account. We find that for relatively large Yukawa couplings the Higgs quartic self-coupling goes negative well below the Standard Model instability scale ∼ 1010 GeV. We show, however, that the “dynamical” inverse seesaw with spontaneous lepton number violation can lead to a completely consistent and stable Higgs vacuum up to the Planck scale.

scholarly journals ANOMALOUS U(1)A AND ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY BREAKING

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 835-844
Author(s):  
ILIA GOGOLADZE ◽  
MIRIAN TSULAIA
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Symmetry ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Supersymmetric Standard Model ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Superstring Theory

We suggest a new mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking in the supersymmetric Standard Model. Our suggestion is based on the presence of an anomalous U (1)A gauge symmetry, which naturally arises in the four-dimensional superstring theory, and heavily relies on the value of the corresponding Fayet–Illiopoulos ξ-term.

scholarly journals Dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking in the model of electroweak-scale right-handed neutrinos

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 1650065
Author(s):  
Pham Quang Hung ◽  
Nguyen Nhu Le
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
Higgs Mechanism ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Electroweak Scale ◽  
Text Model ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Higgs Fields

We present the Higgs mechanism in the context of the EW-scale [Formula: see text] model in which electroweak symmetry is dynamically broken by condensates of mirror quark and right-handed neutrino through the exchange of one fundamental Higgs doublet and one fundamental Higgs triplet, respectively. The formation of these condensates is dynamically investigated by using the Schwinger–Dyson approach. The occurrence of these condensates will give rise to the rich Higgs spectrum. In addition, the VEVs of Higgs fields is also discussed in this dynamical phenomenon.

scholarly journals Natural inflation after Planck 2018

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (01) ◽  
pp. 022
Author(s):  
Nina K. Stein ◽  
William H. Kinney
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Confidence Region ◽  
Hubble Constant ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Observational Constraints ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

Abstract We calculate high-precision constraints on Natural Inflation relative to current observational constraints from Planck 2018 + BICEP/Keck(BK15) Polarization + BAO on r and n S, including post-inflationary history of the universe. We find that, for conventional post-inflationary dynamics, Natural Inflation with a cosine potential is disfavored at greater than 95% confidence out by current data. If we assume protracted reheating characterized by w̅>1/3, Natural Inflation can be brought into agreement with current observational constraints. However, bringing unmodified Natural Inflation into the 68% confidence region requires values of T re below the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. The addition of a SHOES prior on the Hubble Constant H 0 only worsens the fit.

scholarly journals Cosmology of Barrow Holographic Dark Energy as Nojiri-Odintsov Holographic Dark Energy with Specific Cut-off and the Thermodynamics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gargee Chakraborty ◽  
Surajit Chattopadhyay ◽  
Ertan Güdekli ◽  
Irina Radinschi
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Holographic Dark Energy ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Second Law ◽  
Late Time ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Eos Parameter ◽  
Reconstruction Scheme

Motivated by the work of Saridakis (Phys. Rev. D 102, 123525 (2020)), the present study reports the cosmological consequences of Barrow holographic dark energy (HDE) and its thermodynamics. Literatures demonstrate that Dark Energy (DE) may result from electroweak symmetry breaking that triggers a phase transition from early inflation to late time acceleration. In the present study, we incorporated viscosity in the Barrow HDE. A reconstruction scheme is presented for the parameters associated with Barrow holographic dark energy under the purview of viscous cosmology. Equation of state (EoS) parameter is reconstructed in this scenario and quintessence behaviour is observed. Considering BarrowHDE as a specific case ofNojiri-Odintsov (NO) HDE, we have observed quintom behaviour of the EoS parameter and for some values of n the EoS has been observed to be very close to −1 for the current universe. The generalised second law of thermodynamics has come out to be valid in all the scenarios under consideration. Physical viability of considering Barrow HDE as a specific case of NO HDE is demonstrated in this study.

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