Testing the electroweak phase transition in scalar extension models at lepton colliders

We study the electroweak phase transition in three scalar extension models beyond the Standard Model.Assuming new scalars are decoupled at some heavy scale, we use the covariant derivative expansion method to derive all of the dimension-6 effective operators, whose coefficients are highly correlated in a specific model. We provide bounds to the complete set of dimension-6 operators by including the electroweak precision test and recent Higgs measurements. We find that the parameter space of strong first-order phase transitions（induced by the ｜H｜~6 operator）can be probed extensively in Zh production at future electron-positron colliders.

纳赫兹引力波对单态暗物质模型中电弱相变的影响

受脉冲星定时阵列合作组最近观测到的纳赫兹级随机引力波证据的启发,本文在标准模型的单态扩展中探讨了利用极端过冷的电弱相变解释这些观测结果的可能性,并考虑了相变对于暗物质的影响.研究结果表明,通过精细调节模型参数,相应的渗透温度可以连续降低到1 GeV甚至更低.在如此低的渗透温度下,单态暗物质可能在电弱相变之前就脱离热平衡,从而从热辐射中冻结出来.因此,相变期间产生的熵可以显著影响暗物质的残留密度.这减轻了单态扩展模型中同时解释重子生成和满足暗物质直接探测限制的压力,暗示着所考虑的新物理模型可能存在更广阔的参数空间,并可在未来的实验中得到验证.