Order g^2 susceptibilities in the symmetric phase of the Standard Model

TL;DR

This paper calculates the complete order g^2 susceptibilities of conserved charges in the symmetric phase of the Standard Model, crucial for baryogenesis, including non-perturbative effects near the electroweak crossover.

Contribution

It provides the full g^2 corrections to susceptibilities, extending previous work by including non-perturbative contributions near the electroweak crossover.

Findings

Complete g^2 contributions to susceptibilities are computed.

Soft Higgs exchange effects are significant near the electroweak crossover.

Non-perturbative physics at the magnetic screening scale influences susceptibilities.

Abstract

Susceptibilities of conserved charges such as baryon minus lepton number enter baryogenesis computations, since they provide the relationship between conserved charges and chemical potentials. Their next-to-leading order corrections are of order g, where g is a generic Standard Model coupling. They are due to soft Higgs boson exchange, and have been calculated recently, together with some order g^2 corrections. Here we compute the complete g^2 contributions. Close to the electroweak crossover the soft Higgs contribution is of order g^2, and is determined by the non-perturbative physics at the magnetic screening scale.