Thursday, May 30, 2013

1305.6610 (G. C. Dorsch et al.)

A strong electroweak phase transition in the 2HDM after LHC8    [PDF]

G. C. Dorsch, S. J. Huber, J. M. No
The nature of the electroweak phase transition in two-Higgs-doublet models is revisited in light of the recent LHC results. A scan over an extensive region of their parameter space is performed, showing that a strongly first-order phase transition favours a light neutral scalar with SM-like properties, together with a heavy pseudo-scalar (m_A^0 > 400 GeV) and a mass hierarchy in the scalar sector, m_H^+ < m_H^0 < m_A^0. We also investigate the h^0 -> gamma gamma decay channel and find that an enhancement in the branching ratio is allowed, and in some cases even preferred, when a strongly first-order phase transition is required.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6610

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