Chandrasekhar Hall

Thermal resummation and phase transitions

Harikrishnan Ramani

SUNY Stony Brook, USA

Baryogenesis at the electroweak scale requires the EW phase transition to be first order, and the discovery of the 125 GeV Higgs confirms that it is second order in the standard model. A myriad of extensions to the Higgs sector have been proposed to still allow for EW baryogenesis. Most approaches to testing the success of these BSM extensions employ a high temperature, small coupling approximation to estimate the strength of the phase transition and to resum diagrams to all order(also called Daisy diagrams) in order to restore perturbation theory. We relax both these approximations and extend the analysis to temperatures comparable to the EW scale, as well as include 'Super Daisy diagrams' and explore the quantitative implications to certain models.As an added application of these high accuracy methods, i shall also present an alternate history of the universe, one in which electroweak symmetry is more badly broken at higher temperatures.

arxiv ref: 1612.00466