High-Temperature Electroweak Baryogenesis with Composite Higgs

TL;DR

This paper proposes a modified composite Higgs model for electroweak baryogenesis, allowing symmetry breaking at higher temperatures and suggesting collider searches for a heavy dilaton as a key test.

Contribution

It introduces a model where electroweak symmetry breaking occurs at higher temperatures, relaxing experimental tensions and highlighting collider searches for a heavy dilaton.

Findings

Electroweak symmetry breaking persists above 100 GeV.

The dilaton mass can be increased, easing experimental constraints.

Collider searches for the heavy dilaton are promising for future tests.

Abstract

Electroweak Baryogenesis (EWBG) paired with the Composite Higgs (CH) scenario provides a well-motivated and testable framework for addressing the questions of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry and the naturalness of the electroweak scale. The appeal of both concepts however experiences increasing pressure from the experimental side, as no conclusive signs of the corresponding new physics have been observed. In this note we present a modification of the minimal CH EWBG model, where electroweak symmetry breaking persists to temperatures far above the usually obtained upper bound of ~ 100 GeV. This allows for an increase of the mass of the main actor of EWBG in this scenario - the dilaton. Such a modification results in relaxing the tension with experimental data, generally modifying the phenomenology, and pointing at collider searches for the heavy dilaton as the main direction for its future tests.