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Gravitational waves from first order electroweak phase transition in models with the U(1) X gauge symmetry
oleh: Katsuya Hashino, Mitsuru Kakizaki, Shinya Kanemura, Pyungwon Ko, Toshinori Matsui
Format: | Article |
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Diterbitkan: | SpringerOpen 2018-06-01 |
Deskripsi
Abstract We consider a standard model extension equipped with a dark sector where the U(1) X Abelian gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the dark Higgs mechanism. In this framework, we investigate patterns of the electroweak phase transition as well as those of the dark phase transition, and examine detectability of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by such strongly first order phase transition. It is pointed out that the collider bounds on the properties of the discovered Higgs boson exclude a part of parameter space that could otherwise generate detectable GWs. After imposing various constraints on thi model, it is shown that GWs produced by multi-step phase transitions are detectable at future space-based interferometers, such as LISA and DECIGO, if the dark photon is heavier than 25 GeV. Furthermore, we discuss the complementarity of dark photon searches or dark matter searches with the GW observations in these models with the dark gauge symmetry.