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The MSSM electroweak phase transition

When the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is placed in an environment with a finite temperature T approximately=100 GeV, the electroweak symmetry gets restored. Depending on the parameter values, this can happen either via a first order phase transition, or an analytic crossover. If th...

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Autor principal: Laine, Mikko
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1363553
http://cds.cern.ch/record/516906
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Sumario:When the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is placed in an environment with a finite temperature T approximately=100 GeV, the electroweak symmetry gets restored. Depending on the parameter values, this can happen either via a first order phase transition, or an analytic crossover. If there is a phase transition which is sufficiently strongly of the first order, important cosmological remnants could be produced, such as a baryon asymmetry. In this talk I review which part of the MSSM parameter space is consistent both with cosmological baryon asymmetry generation and with existing experimental data. (18 refs).