$Z'$-ino-driven Electroweak Baryogenesis in the UMSSM

TL;DR

This paper explores electroweak baryogenesis within a supersymmetric $U(1)'$ model, demonstrating that a strongly first-order phase transition driven by Higgs mixing and CP violation from the $Z'$-ino can produce the observed baryon asymmetry.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mechanism for baryogenesis in the UMSSM via $Z'$-ino CP violation and analyzes the phase transition and sphaleron decoupling in this context.

Findings

Electroweak phase transition is strongly first order due to Higgs mixing.

$Z'$ boson must be lighter than 150-300 GeV and leptophobic.

Sufficient baryon asymmetry can be generated by $Z'$-ino CP violation.

Abstract

The viable window to electroweak baryogenesis in a supersymmetric $U(1)'$ model is studied in light of the 126 GeV Higgs boson. To investigate the decoupling of the sphaleron process in the broken phase, we evaluate the sphaleron rate and order of the electroweak phase transition. In this model, the electroweak phase transition is strongly first order due to the doublet-singlet Higgs mixing. Consequently, for typical parameter sets the $Z'$ boson has to be lighter than (150-300) GeV and thus leptophobic to be consistent with the collider bounds. We also estimate the baryon asymmetry of the universe based on the closed-time-path formalism, and find that the CP-violating source term fueled by the $Z'$-ino can generate sufficient baryon asymmetry.