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Global electroweak symmetric vacuum

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 7, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2021)225

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Higgs Physics; Thermal Field Theory

Funding

  1. U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC-0017647]
  2. Samsung Science and Technology Foundation [SSTF-BA1602-04]
  3. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MEST) [NRF-2021R1A2C1005615]

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This study examines the potential existence of global vacua and changes in the Higgs potential beyond the Standard Model. The model suggests that the current metastable vacuum has a sufficiently long lifetime. It predicts variations in Higgs self-couplings and significant contributions to the signal of off-shell Higgs invisible decay.
Although the Higgs potential in the Standard Model (SM) contains only a simple electroweak symmetry breaking vacuum in the small field region, additional metastable or global vacua could exist in models beyond the SM. In this paper, we study one intriguing scenario with an additional electroweak symmetric vacuum that could be the global one. For the thermal universe ending at the current metastable vacuum, the electroweak symmetry should stay non-restored at high temperatures. We realize the scenario in a model with Higgs-portal couplings to SM singlet scalars with approximately global O(N) symmetries with a large N. For a large portion of model parameter space, both the quantum and thermal tunneling rates are suppressed such that our current metastable vacuum is long-lived enough. Our scenario predicts order-one changes for the Higgs self-couplings and a large contribution to the signal of the off-shell Higgs invisible decay. It can be partly probed at the LHC Run 3 and well tested at the high luminosity LHC. We also discuss the subcritical (anti-de Sitter) bubbles from the thermal tunneling that could have a large population and interesting cosmological implications.

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