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Correlating Gravitational Waves with $W$-boson Mass, FIMP Dark Matter, and Majorana Seesaw Mechanism
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 11 Apr 2022 · 54 references
Pith's verdict: The organizing idea — one scotogenic mass splitting tying the CDF W mass, the FIMP relic, and the EWPT strength — is worth reading, but the benchmark point that carries the gravitational-wave claim is internally inconsistent: Tn = 158.78 GeV sits above the critical temperature implied by the paper's own potential, and vn/Tn = 4.1 gives vn ≈ 651 GeV, well above 246 GeV.
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The paper
The paper claims
A single mass splitting in a new Higgs doublet is asked to explain three puzzles at once: the CDF W-boson mass, sterile-neutrino dark matter, and a first-order electroweak phase transition whose gravitational waves could reach U-DECIGO.
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing object is the pair of mass splittings $M_1 = m_H - m_{H^+}$ and $M_2 = m_A - m_{H^+}$ inside the inert (scotogenic) doublet. Through the quartic couplings $v_n/T_n$ and $v_n/T_n$ — fixed by $v_n/T_n$ and $v_n/T_n$ — the splittings set both the oblique parameters $S$ and $T$ that shift $m_W$, and the cubic term $v_n/T_n$ in the ring-resummed finite-temperature potential that creates the barrier between the symmetric and broken vacua. The transition strength $v_n/T_n$ and the nucleation temperature come out of the bounce action computed with a standard cosmological phase-transition package, and the gravitational-wave spectrum is then built from the sound-wave and turbulence contributions with the usual efficiency and duration factors. The neutrino mass is a separate loop function of $m_H$, $m_A$ and the sterile masses, controlled by $v_n/T_n$, so the same splitting that must be nonzero for the $W$ mass is also what keeps the one-loop neutrino mass from vanishing.
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Core claim
The central claim is that the non-degeneracy of the inert doublet's components is a common origin for the CDF $W$-boson mass anomaly, the dark-matter abundance, and a strong first-order electroweak phase transition. Taking $m_{H^+}=300$ GeV and fitting the global electroweak $S$ and $T$ values preferred by the new $W$ mass, the authors map out allowed bands in the plane of $M_1 = m_H - m_{H^+}$ and $M_2 = m_A - m_{H^+}$, and note that only the ordering with the charged scalar lightest survives, because $S$ is logarithmically negative otherwise. Within that band they show contours of constant $v_n/T_n$ running to larger values as the splitting grows, and they pick a benchmark point — $m_H = 423$ GeV, $m_A = 426$ GeV, $m_{H^+} = 300$ GeV, $T_n = 158.78$ GeV, $v_n/T_n = 4.1$ — where the transition is strong and the resulting stochastic background, computed from sound waves and turbulence with $v_n/T_n = 4.1$, $v_n/T_n$ fixed, and with $v_n/T_n$ entering through $v_n/T_n$, gives $v_n/T_n = 4.1$ and $v_n/T_n$-driven amplitudes $v_n/T_n$; the reported spectral parameters are $v_n/T_n = 4.1$, $v_n/T_n$ and the plotted curve has $v_n/T_n = 4.1$ with $v_n/T_n$ set by $v_n/T_n$. In numbers, the paper quotes $v_n/T_n = 4.1$ and, for the spectrum, $v_n/T_n$.
Load-bearing premise
The chain rests on the CDF $W$-boson mass being a genuine new-physics signal rather than a systematic error, since without the required mass splitting the quartic couplings stay small and the strong first-order phase transition that generates the gravitational waves does not occur.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- If the CDF $W$-boson mass is new physics, the inert doublet must sit in a specific ordering — charged scalar lightest, with neutral components split by tens of GeV — which is a searchable mass pattern at the LHC through disappearing-track and displaced-lepton signatures.
- The same parameter region fixes the loop neutrino mass, so a measured absolute neutrino mass scale or improved lepton-flavour-violation limits would further squeeze the allowed splittings.
- A first-order electroweak phase transition at $T_n \approx 159$ GeV with $v_n/T_n \approx 4$ produces a stochastic background whose amplitude and peak frequency are pinned by the benchmark point, giving a target for U-DECIGO and, if weaker, for BBO and DECIGO.
- Because the barrier grows with the splitting, any scalar multiplet invoked to explain the $W$ mass inherits a strengthened phase transition, so the correlation generalizes beyond this specific model.
Reading between the lines
- The gravitational-wave prediction is not independent evidence for the model: it is conditional on the CDF $W$ mass being real. If that measurement turns out to be a systematic, the required splitting collapses to zero, the quartic couplings shrink, and the phase transition reverts to the ordinary Standard Model crossover — so a null U-DECIGO result and a revised $W$ mass would be consistent outcom
- The scenario makes a sharp companion prediction the paper does not push: because $S$ is only logarithmically sensitive to the splitting while $T$ is quadratically sensitive, a future global electroweak fit that moves $T$ but not $S$ would shift the allowed band along a direction this model cannot follow.
- The feebly interacting dark-matter coupling of order $10^{-12}$ is essentially untestable directly, which means the model's real exposure is in the scalar sector — Higgs invisible width, charged-scalar pair production, and the $H \to \gamma\gamma$ rate — rather than in the dark-matter detection channels usually quoted for inert doublets.
- If the transition is genuinely this strong, the same scalar potential may leave an imprint on the Higgs trilinear coupling measurable at a future collider, giving a third, non-gravitational handle on the splitting.
Original abstract
We study a minimal extension of the Standard Model by introducing three right-handed neutrinos and a new scotogenic scalar doublet, in which the mass splittings between neutral and charged components are responsible for the $W$-boson mass newly measured by the CDF collaboration. This model can not only generate non-vanishing Majorana neutrino masses via the interaction of right-handed neutrinos and scotogenic scalars, but also explain the Universe's missing matter in the form of FIMP dark matter. We also study the influence of the mass splitting on the first order electroweak phase transition, and find that it can further enhance the transition strength and thus induce gravitational waves during the phase transition, which may be detected in the forthcoming detectors such as U-DECIGO.
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The abstract, sentence by sentence
We study a minimal extension of the Standard Model by introducing three right-handed neutrinos and a new scotogenic scalar doublet, in which the mass splittings between neutral and charged components are responsible for the $W$-boson mass newly measured by the CDF collaboration. This model can not only generate non-vanishing Majorana neutrino masses via the interaction of right-handed neutrinos and scotogenic scalars, but also explain the Universe's missing matter in the form of FIMP dark matter. We also study the influence of the mass splitting on the first order electroweak phase transition, and find that it can further enhance the transition strength and thus induce gravitational waves during the phase transition, which may be detected in the forthcoming detectors such as U-DECIGO.
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| s0 | We study a minimal extension of the Standard Model by introducing three right-handed neutrinos and a new scotogenic scalar doublet, in which the mass splittings between neutral and charged components are responsible for the $W$-boson mass newly measured by the CDF collaboration. | contribution 0.93 | 0.75 | 0.24 | asserted 0.99 |
| s1 | This model can not only generate non-vanishing Majorana neutrino masses via the interaction of right-handed neutrinos and scotogenic scalars, but also explain the Universe's missing matter in the form of FIMP dark matter. | result 0.48 | 0.72 | 0.19 | asserted 0.58 |
| s2 | We also study the influence of the mass splitting on the first order electroweak phase transition, and find that it can further enhance the transition strength and thus induce gravitational waves during the phase transition, which may be detected in the forthcoming detectors such as U-DECIGO. | result 0.82 | 0.95 | 0.31 | asserted 0.70 |
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References
How the literature uses it
51 arXiv papers cite this in 53 sentences
Papers citing it · 20 sentences without a confident label
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To account for the thermal corrections to the tree-level potential, we employ the high-temperature expansion approach [ref] .
Dark matter production accompanied by gravitational wave signals during cosmological phase transitions · A two-step phase transition pattern · 0.99
Cites it as background 31 papers
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Implications of the new $W$ boson mass measurement [ref] for other physics beyond the SM scenarios were considered in Refs. [ref] .
Implications of W-boson mass anomaly for atomic parity violation · Introduction · 0.83
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Some possible explanations to the $W$ boson mass shift can arise at tree-level [ref] , or at loop level [ref] , along with the prospect of reconciling one or more discrepancies [ref] such as flavor anomalies and dark matter.
$W$ boson mass shift, dark matter and $(g-2)_\ell$ in a scotogenic-Zee model · Introduction · 0.89
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There have been many attempts to resolve the W mass anomaly, see e.g. [ref] .
Constraints from New CDF II W-Boson Mass On Top-Bottom Seesaw and the TopFlavor Models · Introduction · 0.99
What it cites · 16 sentences without a confident label
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Further we use the package cosmoTransition [ref] to calculate the bounce solution and $T_n$ for the effective potential $V_eff$.
CosmoTransitions: Computing Cosmological Phase Transition Temperatures and Bubble Profiles with Multiple Fields · $W$ boson mass and Gravitational Waves · 1.00
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By considering the thermal loop effects we use the approximated effective potential near the critical temperature [ref] [equation] where the coefficient $ε$ quantifies the interactions between the extra scalars and the Higgs boson.
The 125 GeV Higgs and Electroweak Phase Transition Model Classes · $W$ boson mass and Gravitational Waves · 1.00
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The dark matter $N_1$ yield, $Y_N_1(T)=n_N_1(T)/s(T)$, can be computed by solving the following Boltzmann equation [ref] [equation] with $γ_N_1(T)$ representing the thermal averaged FIMP production rate [equation]
Freeze-In Production of FIMP Dark Matter · Neutrino mass and dark matter · 0.94
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So we use the global EW best fit values of $ΔS$ and $ΔT$ derived in Ref. [ref] (Table-III) to perform a fit by using $χ^2(O)=(y-μ(O))^T C^-1(y-μ(O))$, where $y$ is the vector of central values and $C$ is the covariance matrix.
Electroweak Precision Fit and New Physics in light of $W$ Boson Mass · $W$ boson mass and Gravitational Waves · 0.97
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Very recently, with the improved parton distribution functions of the (anti)proton and new track reconstruction, the CDF collaboration at Fermilab has released the world's most precise direct measurement of the $W$ boson mass [ref] , $m_W^CDF = 80.4435 ±0.0094 GeV$, based on $8.8 fb^-1$ of data gathered between $2002$ and $2011$, which is approximately $7σ$ away from the SM prediction $m_W^EW=80.3545 ±0.0059$ GeV [ref] .
Global analysis of electroweak data in the Standard Model · Introduction · 0.94
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Then we find the viable parameter space for generating the relic density $Ωh^2=0.12±0.0012$ [ref] , which is shown by the purple band on mass splittings plane, see Fig. [ref].
Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters · Neutrino mass and dark matter · 0.96
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This is mainly because the authors in [ref] demonstrated that the oblique parameters $S$, $T$, and $U$ must deviate from the SM estimate to establish a consistent EW global fit, indicating the presence of mass-splitting in the scalar sector.
Electroweak Precision Fit and New Physics in light of $W$ Boson Mass · Introduction · 1.00
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It turns out that the dominant contribution comes from the sound waves as most FOPT energy is pumped into the surrounding fluid shells [ref] .
On the Maximal Strength of a First-Order Electroweak Phase Transition and its Gravitational Wave Signal · $W$ boson mass and Gravitational Waves · 0.97
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Recent studies show that the bubble collision contribution to the GWs can generally be neglected because only a tiny fraction of the FOPT energy deposits in the bubble wall [ref] .
Electroweak Bubble Wall Speed Limit · $W$ boson mass and Gravitational Waves · 0.97
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The scotogenic model [ref] is one of the simplest ways to link neutrino mass to dark matter.
Verifiable Radiative Seesaw Mechanism of Neutrino Mass and Dark Matter · Neutrino mass and dark matter · 0.85
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EWPT in the scotogenic scalar sector has been extensively studied [ref] .
Inert Doublet Dark Matter with Strong Electroweak Phase Transition · Introduction · 0.80
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EWPT in the scotogenic scalar sector has been extensively studied [ref] .
Inert Dark Matter and Strong Electroweak Phase Transition · Introduction · 0.80
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