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Probing radiative electroweak symmetry breaking with colliders and gravitational waves

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Radiative symmetry breaking provides an appealing explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking and addresses the hierarchy problem. We present a comprehensive phenomenological study of this scenario, focusing on its key feature: the logarithmic-shaped potential. This potential gives rise to a relatively light scalar boson that mixes with the Higgs boson and leads to first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in the early Universe. Our detailed analysis includes providing exact and analytical solutions for the vacuum structure and scalar interactions, classifying four patterns of cosmic thermal history, and calculating the supercooled FOPT dynamics and GWs. By combining future collider and gravitational wave experiments, we can probe the conformal symmetry breaking scales up to $10^5-10^8$ GeV.

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Dark matter in classically conformal theories: WIMP and supercooling

hep-ph · 2026-03-10 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Classically conformal SU(2)_X model with triplet dark scalar yields viable WIMP and supercooled DM parameter spaces whose production histories are set by the model's first-order phase transition, with gravitational waves as a common probe.

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  • Reviving primordial black hole formation in slow first-order phase transitions hep-ph · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 66 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Slow reheating after a supercooled first-order phase transition allows an early matter-dominated era in which small curvature perturbations grow sufficiently to form primordial black holes.

  • Dark matter in classically conformal theories: WIMP and supercooling hep-ph · 2026-03-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 50 · internal anchor

    Classically conformal SU(2)_X model with triplet dark scalar yields viable WIMP and supercooled DM parameter spaces whose production histories are set by the model's first-order phase transition, with gravitational waves as a common probe.