Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: Quench from portal coupling to new singlet field

TL;DR

This paper simulates Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis triggered by a scalar singlet field, demonstrating that the baryon asymmetry depends on quench dynamics and can be enhanced with more complex Higgs-singlet interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a dynamical scalar singlet field to trigger the transition, extending previous models with a more realistic quench mechanism and exploring its effects on baryon asymmetry.

Findings

Final baryon asymmetry similar to previous 'by-hand' models under certain parameters

Complex Higgs-singlet dynamics can significantly enhance baryon asymmetry

Results validate and extend existing simulations in the literature.

Abstract

We compute the baryon asymmetry generated from Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis, when a dynamical Beyond-the-Standard-Model scalar singlet field triggers the spinodal transition. Using a simple potential for this additional field, we match the speed of the quench to earlier simulations with a "by-hand" mass flip. We find that for the parameter subspace most similar to a by-hand transition, the final baryon asymmetry shows a similar dependence on quench time and is of the same magnitude. For more general parameter choices the Higgs-singlet dynamics can be very complicated, resulting in an enhancement of the final baryon asymmetry. Our results validate and generalise results of simulations in the literature and open up the Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis scenario to further model building.