TY - JOUR
T1 - The baryogenesis window in the MSSM
AU - Carena, M.
AU - Nardini, G.
AU - Quirós, M.
AU - Wagner, C. E.M.
PY - 2009/5/1
Y1 - 2009/5/1
N2 - Electroweak baryogenesis provides an attractive explanation of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry that relies on physics at the weak scale and thus it is testable at present and near future high-energy physics experiments. Although this scenario may not be realized within the Standard Model, it can be accommodated within the MSSM provided there are new CP-violating phases and the lightest stop mass is smaller than the top-quark mass. In this work we provide an evaluation of the values of the stop (mover(t, ̃)) and Higgs (mH) masses consistent with the requirements of electroweak baryogenesis based on an analysis that makes use of the renormalization group improved Higgs and stop potentials, and including the dominant two-loop effects at high temperature. We find an allowed window in the (mover(t, ̃), mH)-plane, consistent with all present experimental data, where there is a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition and where the electroweak vacuum is metastable but sufficiently long-lived. In particular we obtain absolute upper bounds on the Higgs and stop masses, mH ≲ 127 GeV and mover(t, ̃) ≲ 120 GeV, implying that this scenario will be probed at the LHC. © 2008 Elsevier B.V.
AB - Electroweak baryogenesis provides an attractive explanation of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry that relies on physics at the weak scale and thus it is testable at present and near future high-energy physics experiments. Although this scenario may not be realized within the Standard Model, it can be accommodated within the MSSM provided there are new CP-violating phases and the lightest stop mass is smaller than the top-quark mass. In this work we provide an evaluation of the values of the stop (mover(t, ̃)) and Higgs (mH) masses consistent with the requirements of electroweak baryogenesis based on an analysis that makes use of the renormalization group improved Higgs and stop potentials, and including the dominant two-loop effects at high temperature. We find an allowed window in the (mover(t, ̃), mH)-plane, consistent with all present experimental data, where there is a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition and where the electroweak vacuum is metastable but sufficiently long-lived. In particular we obtain absolute upper bounds on the Higgs and stop masses, mH ≲ 127 GeV and mover(t, ̃) ≲ 120 GeV, implying that this scenario will be probed at the LHC. © 2008 Elsevier B.V.
U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.12.014
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.12.014
M3 - Article
VL - 812
SP - 243
EP - 263
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
SN - 0550-3213
IS - 1-2
ER -