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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2021)099
Keywords
Beyond Standard Model; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking; Higgs Physics; Perturbative QCD
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- UK's Royal Society
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan
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Research suggests that a 100 TeV proton collider may confirm or falsify a strong first-order transition, potentially occurring relatively early in its lifetime. Furthermore, a lower-energy collider at 27 TeV may also probe a large fraction, if not all, of the parameter space.
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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