Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition with Higgs Factories and Gravitational Waves

Abstract

After the discovery of the Higgs boson, understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking and the associated electroweak phase transition has become the most pressing question in particle physics. Answering this question is a priority for experimental studies. Data from the LHC and future lepton collider-based Higgs factories may uncover new physics coupled to the Higgs boson, which can induce the electroweak phase transition to become first order. Such a phase transition generates a stochastic background of gravitational waves, which could potentially be detected by a space-based gravitational wave interferometer. In this paper, we survey a few classes of models in which the electroweak phase transition is strongly first order. We identify the observables that would provide evidence of these models at the LHC and next-generation lepton colliders, and we assess whether the corresponding gravitational wave signal could be detected by eLISA. We find that most of the models with first order electroweak phase transition can be covered by the precise measurements of Higgs couplings at the proposed Higgs factories. We also map out the model space that can be probed with gravitational wave detection by eLISA.

30 pages, 6 figures; v2 - corrected factor of 2 error in Eq (2.5) and updated relevant figures. Results unchanged. References added

References in corpus (15)

• Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 7 and 8 TeV
• Testing Electroweak Baryogenesis with Future Colliders
• Novel Effects in Electroweak Breaking from a Hidden Sector
• Exploring Resonant di-Higgs production in the Higgs Singlet Model
• A unified explanation for dark matter and electroweak baryogenesis with direct detection and gravitational wave signatures
• Higgs Self-Coupling as a Probe of Electroweak Phase Transition
• What is the Criterion for a Strong First Order Electroweak Phase Transition in Singlet Models?
• Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W+W+jj production at the LHC
• On the gauge dependence of vacuum transitions at finite temperature
• Singlet-Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transitions in the 100 TeV Frontier
• Synergy between measurements of the gravitational wave and the triple Higgs coupling in probing first order phase transition
• Improved sphaleron decoupling condition and the Higgs coupling constants in the real singlet-extended SM
• Higgs Self-Coupling Measurements at a 100 TeV Hadron Collider
• Gravity Waves from a Cosmological Phase Transition: Gauge Artifacts and Daisy Resummations
• Flavor Cosmology: Dynamical Yukawas in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism

Cited by in corpus (107)

• Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update
• On the Maximal Strength of a First-Order Electroweak Phase Transition and its Gravitational Wave Signal
• Cosmological phase transitions: from perturbative particle physics to gravitational waves
• Electroweak baryogenesis and gravitational waves from a real scalar singlet
• Gravitational wave, collider and dark matter signals from a scalar singlet electroweak baryogenesis
• A Second Higgs Doublet in the Early Universe: Baryogenesis and Gravitational Waves
• Building and testing models with extended Higgs sectors
• Precision Higgs Physics at CEPC
• Probing the pre-BBN universe with gravitational waves from cosmic strings
• Model-independent energy budget of cosmological first-order phase transitions
• Dynamics of Electroweak Phase Transition In Singlet-Scalar Extension of the Standard Model
• Higgs boson potential at colliders: status and perspectives
• Phase transition and gravitational wave phenomenology of scalar conformal extensions of the Standard Model
• Evolution of hydromagnetic turbulence from the electroweak phase transition
• Phase transition and vacuum stability in the classically conformal B-L model
• Fusing Vectors into Scalars at High Energy Lepton Colliders
• Electroweak baryogenesis at high wall velocities
• Gravitational Wave Signals of Electroweak Phase Transition Triggered by Dark Matter
• The Electroweak Phase Transition: A Collider Target
• First principles determination of bubble wall velocity
• The CP-Violating 2HDM in Light of a Strong First Order Electroweak Phase Transition and Implications for Higgs Pair Production
• Gravitational waves and electroweak baryogenesis in a global study of the extended scalar singlet model
• Detection of Early-Universe Gravitational Wave Signatures and Fundamental Physics
• Gravitational waves and Higgs boson couplings for exploring first order phase transition in the model with a singlet scalar field
• Nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational waves from a first-order electroweak phase transition
• Gravitational waves from bubble collisions and fluid motion in strongly supercooled phase transitions
• Baryogenesis and gravity waves from a UV-completed electroweak phase transition
• Non-resonant Collider Signatures of a Singlet-Driven Electroweak Phase Transition
• Primordial black holes as a probe of strongly first-order electroweak phase transition
• Electroweak phase transition with spontaneous $Z_2$-breaking
• Benchmarks for Double Higgs Production in the Singlet Extended Standard Model at the LHC
• Gravitational wave and collider probes of a triplet Higgs sector with a low cutoff
• Implications for First-Order Cosmological Phase Transitions from the Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Run
• Strong First Order EWPT and Strong Gravitational Waves in $Z_3$-symmetric Singlet Scalar Extension
• Resonant Di-Higgs Production at Gravitational Wave Benchmarks: A Collider Study using Machine Learning
• Ultra-relativistic bubbles from the simplest Higgs portal and their cosmological consequences
• Combining thermal resummation and gauge invariance for electroweak phase transition
• Baryogenesis, Primordial Black Holes and MHz-GHz Gravitational Waves
• Exotic Higgs Decays and the Electroweak Phase Transition
• Gravitational wave and collider implications of electroweak baryogenesis aided by non-standard cosmology
• Gravitational waves at aLIGO and vacuum stability with a scalar singlet extension of the Standard Model
• Multistep Strongly First Order Phase Transitions from New Fermions at the TeV Scale
• Explore Inert Dark Matter Blind Spots with Gravitational Wave Signatures
• Supercool subtleties of cosmological phase transitions
• Probing electroweak phase transition with multi-TeV muon colliders and gravitational waves
• Exploring dynamical CP violation induced baryogenesis by gravitational waves and colliders
• Gravitational waves from first order electroweak phase transition in models with the $U(1{)}_X^{}$ gauge symmetry
• Probing Electroweak Phase Transition via Enhanced Di-Higgs Production
• Implications of Nano-Hertz Gravitational Waves on Electroweak Phase Transition in the Singlet Dark Matter Model
• How arbitrary are perturbative calculations of the electroweak phase transition?
• Gravitational wave from dark sector with dark pion
• Gravitational Wave Signals of Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter in the ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ Complex Singlet Model
• Domain walls seeding the electroweak phase transition
• On gauge dependence of gravitational waves from a first-order phase transition in classical scale-invariant $U(1{)}^{\prime }$ models
• Gravitational Waves from Phase Transitions in Models with Charged Singlets
• Electroweak baryogenesis via bottom transport
• Real scalar phase transitions: a nonperturbative analysis
• Electroweak Phase Transition with an SU(2) Dark Sector
• Probing the gauge symmetry breaking of the early universe in 3-3-1 models and beyond by gravitational waves
• LISA Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Sound Waves
• Phase Transitions and Gravitational Wave Tests of Pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter in the Softly Broken U(1) Scalar Singlet Model
• Exploring Extended Scalar Sectors with Di-Higgs Signals: A Higgs EFT Perspective
• N${}^3$LO+N${}^3$LL QCD improved Higgs pair cross sections
• Complementarity of the future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders and gravitational waves in the probe of complex singlet extension to the Standard Model
• Measuring the Higgs self-coupling via Higgs-pair production at a 100 TeV p-p collider
• The Electro-Weak Phase Transition at Colliders: Confronting Theoretical Uncertainties and Complementary Channels
• Prospects of gravitational waves in the minimal left-right symmetric model
• Collider searches of scalar singlets across lifetimes
• Di-Higgs Blind Spots in Gravitational Wave Signals
• Probing multi-step electroweak phase transition with multi-peaked primordial gravitational waves spectra
• The minimal fermionic model of electroweak baryogenesis
• Extending two Higgs doublet models for two-loop neutrino mass generation and one-loop neutrinoless double beta decay
• HHH Whitepaper
• Impact of a Midband Gravitational Wave Experiment On Detectability of Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
• Two-field cosmological phase transitions and gravitational waves in the singlet Majoron model
• Lepton-mediated electroweak baryogenesis, gravitational waves and the $4\tau$ final state at the collider
• Searching for lepton portal dark matter with colliders and gravitational waves
• Detecting circular polarisation in the stochastic gravitational-wave background from a first-order cosmological phase transition
• Electroweak Phase Transition with a Double Well Done Doubly Well
• Higgs potential and fundamental physics
• Implications of the upper bound on $\mathbf{h}\to {\mathbf{\mu }}^{+}{\mathbf{\mu }}^{-}$ on the baryon asymmetry of the Universe
• New Physics Search at the CEPC: a General Perspective
• Constraining the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum from Cosmological First-Order Phase Transitions Using Data from LIGO-Virgo First Three Observing Runs
• A Strongly First-Order Electroweak Phase Transition from Loryons
• LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: Primordial Magnetic Fields
• The Electro-Weak Phase Transition at Colliders: Discovery Post-Mortem
• Anatomy of the Electroweak Phase Transition for Dark Sector induced Baryogenesis
• Model-independent features of gravitational waves from bubble collisions
• Prospects for Detecting light bosons at the FCC-ee and CEPC
• Probing CP violating Higgs sectors via the precision measurement of coupling constants
• Signs of heavy Higgs bosons at CLIC: An $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ road to the Electroweak Phase Transition
• Interference effects in resonant di-Higgs production at the LHC in the Higgs singlet extension
• Gravitational waves and tadpole resummation: Efficient and easy convergence of finite temperature QFT
• Modifying dark matter indirect detection signals by thermal effects at freeze-out
• Gravitational waves from the first order electroweak phase transition in the $Z_3$ symmetric singlet scalar model
• Upper limit on first-order electroweak phase transition strength
• The Higgs program and open questions in particle physics and cosmology
• Gravitational Wave From Axion-like Particle Inflation
• Real Singlet Scalar Benchmarks in the Multi-TeV Resonance Regime
• Stability of non-topological string in supersymmetric $SU(2)\times U(1)$ gauge theory
• Gravitational waves from patterns of electroweak symmetry breaking: an effective perspective
• Constraints on Heavy Neutral Leptons interacting with a singlet scalar
• Categorization of two-loop Feynman diagrams in the $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }^2)$ correction to $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to ZH$
• Investigating a strong first-order electroweak phase transition in the RxSM at future linear $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders and LISA
• Weak bosons as partons below 10 TeV partonic center-of-momentum
• The Discovery Potential of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Stochastic gravitational wave background from the collisions of dark matter halos