Gravitational wave and collider searches for electroweak symmetry breaking patterns
Ruiyu Zhou, Ligong Bian, Huai-Ke Guo, Yongcheng Wu
Abstract
Utilizing the Georgi-Machacek model, we study the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism with extra electroweak symmetry breaking contributions (eEWSB) that are bounded by the Fermi constant and limits from the related collider searches. The eEWSB is helpful to build a different zero temperature vacuum structure from the Standard Model (SM), and therefore leads to different electroweak phase transition patterns at the early Universe. We investigate the collider search prospects and gravitational waves (GW) predictions from the strongly firstly order phase transition (SFOEWPT) in this scenario. The Higgs pair searches at lepton colliders are found to be complementary with the GW searches of the SFOEWPT parameter spaces.