Magnetic mass effect on the sphaleron energy
arXiv:2003.13929 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.041701
Abstract
We elucidate a magnetic mass effect on a sphaleron energy that is crucial for baryon number preservation needed for successful electroweak baryogenesis. It is found that the sphaleron energy increases in response to the magnetic mass. As an application, we study the sphaleron energy and electroweak phase transition with the magnetic mass in a two-Higgs-doublet model. Although the magnetic mass can screen the gauge boson loops, it relaxes a baryon number preservation criterion more effectively, broadening the baryogenesis-possible region. Our findings would be universal in any new physics models as long as the gauge sector is common to the standard model.
5 pages, 2 figures; v2: some clarifications and references added, version accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in PRD
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