Real Higgs singlet and the electroweak phase transition in the standard model, (UM-P-93/80, OZ-93/20)

J. Choi; R. R. Volkas

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Real Higgs singlet and the electroweak phase transition in the standard model, (UM-P-93/80, OZ-93/20)

J. Choi, R. R. Volkas

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 6 Aug 1993 · 16 references

Pith's verdict: The existence claim holds up, but Table 1's Vc/Tc is not the quantity the sphaleron bound constrains, so the reported margins overstate the transition strength.

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Short version: the existence claim survives, but the column in Table 1 that is supposed to demonstrate it is not the quantity the constraint requires. That is the thing to know before you read it. The stress-test note lands, and it is sharper than anything in the reader's report, which missed it entirely. Eq. (1) constrains the doublet VEV at Tc, since only u enters the W/Z masses and the sphaleron energy; the singlet is a gauge singlet and contributes nothing to erasure. Table 1 instead reports Vc, defined in its own caption as the distance between the two degenerate minima in the (u,v) plane. In the one worked example we can check, the minima at Tc = 93 GeV are (0, 200) and (160, -152), giving Vc = 387, matching the tabulated 390, while u(Tc)/Tc = 160/93 = 1.72, not 4.2. The margin is overstated by a factor of about 2.4, and for the other six rows u(Tc) is never given, so whether they clear the bound at all is not established by the numbers printed. The existence claim itself survives, because 1.72 > 1 for that set, but the table does not carry the weight the text puts on it. The fix is trivial: report u(Tc)/Tc per row and recheck the six. What is genuinely new here is modest and real: the tree-level cubic terms that Pietroni used in the MSSM-plus-singlet and Enqvist et al. used in the complex-singlet case are applied to the minimal real-singlet extension, with the singlet VEV kept non-zero and no Majoron to soften the Higgs mass bound. Seven explicit parameter sets, a standard one-loop effective potential, and an honest footnote saying a first-order transition is necessary but not sufficient. The dropped temperature-induced cubic terms are acknowledged and quantified at roughly the 10% level via a local cubic fit; that is a reasonable defence, though the fit is local to the tabulated minima rather than run across the scan. Imposing v1 = -v2 by hand to make the VEV pattern realisable, with no acceptance statistics, means 'a region exists' is doing very little work, but the claim only needs one point. Send it out. The physics is standard and correctly assembled, the mechanism is credited properly, and the central error is a reporting one that a referee can name in a paragraph.

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[Eq. (1) and Table 1 caption] The quantity tabulated in Table 1 is not the quantity constrained in Eq. (1). Eq. (1) requires v(Tc)/Tc ≳ 1, where v(Tc) is the Higgs VEV that controls sphaleron suppression; since the singlet S is a gauge singlet it does not enter the W/Z masses or the sphaleron energy, so only the doublet component u(Tc) is relevant. Table 1, however, defines its column as 'Vc is the distance between the two degenerate minima in the (u, v) plane at Tc'. For the worked example (second parameter set, Tc = 93 GeV) the minima are (0, 200) and (160, −152), giving Vc = sqrt(160² + 352²) ≈ 387, consistent with the tabulated 390, while the physically relevant ratio is u(Tc)/Tc = 160/93 ≈ 1.72; the tabulated 390/93 ≈ 4.2 therefore overstates the margin by roughly a factor 2.4. For row 1, Vc/Tc ≈ 170/107 ≈ 1.59, and if the singlet jump there is comparable to or larger than the doublet jump (as it is in the worked example), u(Tc)/Tc could fall below unity. The paper never reports u(Tc)/Tc for any row, so the statement that Table 1 'reveals how constraints (1) and (2) can both be met' is not established by the numbers as presented. The authors should report u(Tc)/Tc for every row and, if any row fails, say so.
[Section 3, paragraph following Table 1] The robustness argument against the omitted temperature-induced cubic terms does not hold uniformly across Table 1. The fit yields at most an additional −0.3v³, which the authors compare to the tree-level cubic −αv³/3 and quote as about 7% for α = 12.20. But the tree-level cubic coefficient is α/3, so for row 3 (α = 1.24) the coefficient is ≈ 0.41 and a −0.3v³ correction is ≈ 73% of it, not 10%; row 2 (α = 3.58) gives ≈ 25% and row 6 (α = 4.64) gives ≈ 19%. The claim that the approximate potential is 'quantitatively accurate to about the 10% level near the degenerate minima' therefore holds for the large-α rows and fails for the small-α rows, which are precisely the rows where the tree-level cubic is weakest and the thermal cubic matters most. Since the fit was performed only around the minima of the tabulated sets, a direct recomputation including the cubic terms and self-energies for at least the small-α rows is needed before the existence conclusion can be regarded as established for those sets.
[Section 3, paragraph following Table 1] The assertion that 'the upper bound restriction no longer applies when terms of the form αv³ exist (for any non-zero value of α)' is too strong as stated. For arbitrarily small α the tree-level barrier is negligible and the thermal cubic term still controls the transition, so the upper bound on the Higgs mass that operates in the minimal SM should persist approximately until α is large enough for the tree-level cubic to dominate the barrier. The statement should be qualified with a condition on α, or supported by a scan showing where the crossover occurs; as written it is a logical overreach that carries part of the paper's robustness argument.

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[Eq. (1)] The symbol v(Tc) in Eq. (1) denotes the Higgs VEV generically, while v is used throughout for the singlet VEV. Writing u(Tc) explicitly in Eq. (1) would remove the ambiguity that underlies the Table 1 issue above.
[Eq. (13)] The numerical constant 0.11 in the u² coefficient should be defined in the text; it appears to combine the gauge and top contributions, and a reader cannot check it without reconstructing the sum.
[Table 1] The column headed m_{φ,S} contains two masses per row; it would help to state in the caption which entry is the lightest Higgs boson, since that is the quantity compared against the 60 GeV bound.
[Section 3, parameter choice] The restriction v1 = −v2 is justified only by the remark that it 'makes the pattern of VEV formation described in Figs. 1 to 4 more realisable'. For an existence claim this is acceptable, but the abstract's phrase 'a region of parameter space exists' should be qualified as a region within this slice, so that readers do not overestimate the size of the allowed region.
[Section 3, opening paragraph] The zero-temperature one-loop terms are dropped on the grounds that they 'only contribute a few percent to the overall potential in the region m/T < 1'. A short quantitative demonstration of this estimate, or a comparison of one representative set with and without those terms, would make the approximation credible.
[References [8] and [13]] Both are cited as unpublished preprints. Reference [13] is the closest comparison in the literature and carries part of the motivation, so the authors should note whether it has since appeared or otherwise indicate its status.

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Adding one real Higgs singlet to the Standard Model may open a window where the electroweak phase transition is strong enough to preserve a baryon asymmetry, while the lightest Higgs boson stays above about 60 GeV.

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The paper asks whether the smallest possible extension of the Standard Model Higgs sector, one extra real scalar singlet that couples only to the Higgs doublet, can do what the minimal Standard Model apparently cannot: give a first-order electroweak phase transition violent enough that the Higgs vacuum expectation value at the transition temperature satisfies $v(T_c)/T_c > rsim 1$, the condition for sphalerons not to wash out a generated baryon asymmetry. The obstacle is that the same parameters set the Higgs mass, and the experimental lower bound of about 60 GeV pushes the minimal-model transition toward being too weak. The authors build the finite-temperature effective potential for the singlet model and scan a randomised region of its parameter space, keeping the singlet's own vacuum expectation value non-zero for generality. They report seven explicit parameter sets that pass all their tests, with lightest Higgs masses between 61 and 103 GeV. The mechanism they credit is the pair of tree-level cubic terms, $-alpha v^3/3$ and $-sigma u^2 v/4$, which make the potential asymmetric under $v$ to $-v$ and let two nearly parallel valleys form and become degenerate at the critical temperature.

What carries the argument

The finite-temperature effective potential $V(u,v)$ in the two background fields, built from the tree-level potential plus the one-loop Coleman-Weinberg piece and the thermal piece, with the dominant higher-order corrections resummed through self-energies $Pi_j(0)$ so that the cubic terms use $M_j^2 = m_j^2 + Pi_j$. The load-bearing ingredient is the tree-level cubic structure: the $-alpha v^3/3$ term and the $-sigma u^2 v/4$ term break the $v$ to $-v$ symmetry of the potential, which is what allows two approximately parallel valleys to exist and to become degenerate at $T_c$ with a barrier between them. This is the same qualitative role that tree-level cubic terms play in the singlet extension of the minimal supersymmetric model, and the paper's stated motivation is to see whether that trend recurs in the smallest possible extension of the Standard Model Higgs sector.

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Core claim

The claim is that a region of parameter space exists in the Standard Model plus a real Higgs singlet for which the electroweak phase transition is first order and strong enough to avoid sphaleron erasure of baryon asymmetry, while the lightest Higgs boson remains above the experimental bound of roughly 60 GeV. The authors construct the one-loop finite-temperature effective potential, including the ring-resummed self-energy corrections to the cubic terms, and reduce the seven free parameters to five by fixing the zero-temperature global minimum at $u = 246$ GeV and expressing the mass parameters in terms of the extrema of the tree-level potential. They then test randomly chosen parameter sets against four conditions: correct zero-temperature global minimum, lightest Higgs mass at or above 60 GeV, an existing first-order transition, and $m_i/T_c < 1$ where that transition occurs. Table 1 lists seven surviving sets with $m_{phi,S}$ between 61 and 103 GeV and $V_c/T_c$ values such as $170/107$ and $390/93$, where $V_c$ is the distance between the two degenerate minima at $T_c$. The qualitative picture is that the tree-level cubic terms tilt the potential in the $v$ direction so that two valleys roughly parallel to the $u$-axis can become degenerate, letting the global minimum tunnel from a point with $u > 0$ to a point with $u = 0$ and thereby restoring electroweak symmetry.

Load-bearing premise

The parameter scan is run with the temperature-induced cubic terms switched off, and the claim that the accepted sets survive their inclusion rests on a single polynomial fit to those terms around the degenerate minima of the seven tabulated sets, not on a recomputation across the scanned region.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

The minimal singlet extension of the Standard Model Higgs sector joins the list of models that can satisfy the sphaleron bound and the Higgs mass bound at the same time, unlike the minimal Standard Model itself.
The presence of any non-zero tree-level cubic coefficient $alpha$ removes the upper bound on the Higgs mass above which the transition becomes second order, so the self-energy corrections do not kill the first-order transition the way they do in the minimal model.
A rough measure of a model's viability for electroweak baryogenesis can be read off from whether its Higgs potential contains tree-level cubic terms, rather than from the temperature-induced cubic terms alone.
The model predicts, for some parameter sets, an additional first-order phase transition purely in the singlet direction at temperatures above the electroweak transition; the authors note this is not required for baryogenesis.
Because no Majoron is present, the singlet cannot relax the Higgs mass bound through invisible decay channels, so the 60 GeV constraint must be met directly by the parameters.

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The scan is performed with the temperature-induced cubic terms omitted, and the robustness argument is a polynomial fit to those terms around the degenerate minima of the seven tabulated sets; a reader could reasonably want the fit repeated across the whole accepted region, since a shift in barrier height near threshold is exactly what decides whether $v(T_c)/T_c$ stays above one.
If the mechanism is really the $v$ to $-v$ asymmetry, then the size of the surviving window should scale with how large $alpha$ and $sigma$ can be made without violating the zero-temperature minimum condition; that scaling is not plotted here and would be a cheap diagnostic for neighbouring singlet models.
The same tree-level-cubic logic should transfer to any extension where a gauge-singlet scalar gets a cubic self-coupling, which makes the presence or absence of such a term a quick filter when surveying models for electroweak baryogenesis.
The paper's transition temperatures are of order 100 GeV and its $V_c/T_c$ values are computed from a potential that neglects the temperature-independent one-loop terms; a lattice or fully resummed treatment near $T_c$ would be the natural next check on whether the two-valley picture survives.

Original abstract

The effective potential at finite temperature is constructed within the minimal standard model when a real Higgs singlet is added on. We find that a region of parameter space exists for which one can find a first order transition strong enough to prevent the erasure due to sphalerons of baryon asymmetry, while keeping the mass of the smallest Higgs boson above the experimental lower bound of about 60 GeV.

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The effective potential at finite temperature is constructed within the minimal standard model when a real Higgs singlet is added on. We find that a region of parameter space exists for which one can find a first order transition strong enough to prevent the erasure due to sphalerons of baryon asymmetry, while keeping the mass of the smallest Higgs boson above the experimental lower bound of about 60 GeV.

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New particles that could make the electroweak phase transition first order must be lighter than roughly a few times 140 GeV and couple non-negligibly to the Higgs, putting them within reach of future colliders.
Gravitational waves and electroweak baryogenesis in a global study of the extended scalar singlet model
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A seven-parameter global fit of the singlet-scalar plus fermion-dark-matter model finds viable regions that both saturate the dark matter abundance and permit a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, with gr...
Gravitational waves from a very strong electroweak phase transition
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For very strong electroweak phase transitions, plasma sound waves dominate the gravitational wave signal over bubble collisions, and models with strongly coupled extra bosons outperform models with tree-level potentia...
Improved sphaleron decoupling condition and the Higgs coupling constants in the real singlet-extended SM
hep-ph 2014-06 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

In the real singlet-extended Standard Model, the sphaleron decoupling condition tightens from v_C/T_C > 1 to v_C/T_C > 1.1-1.2 when the sphaleron energy is computed with the finite-temperature one-loop effective poten...

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It is found that there are parameter values for which this model at the one-loop level with finite temperature effect may allow the desired phase transition.

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[ref] and its recent revival in form of hidden sector theories [ref] .

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The first model is a $ℤ_2$-symmetric real singlet scalar extension of the SM, which is regarded as the most minimal extension capable of rendering a strong first-order EWPT, and has been studied extensively in the literature [ref] .

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