A strongly first order electroweak phase transition from strong symmetry-breaking interactions

Abstract

We argue that a strongly first order electroweak phase transition is natural in the presence of strong symmetry-breaking interactions, such as technicolor. We demonstrate this using an effective linear scalar theory of the symmetry-breaking sector.

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