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- Bloor, Sanjay, et al.
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The GAMBIT Universal Model Machine : from Lagrangians to likelihoods
- 2021
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In: European Physical Journal C. - : Springer Nature. - 1434-6044 .- 1434-6052. ; 81:12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We introduce the GAMBIT Universal Model Machine (GUM), a tool for automatically generating code for the global fitting software framework GAMBIT, based on Lagrangian-level inputs. GUM accepts models written symbolically in FeynRules and SARAH formats, and can use either tool along with MadG rap h and CaIcHEP to generate GAMBIT model, collider, dark matter, decay and spectrum code, as well as GAMBIT interfaces to corresponding versions of SPheno, micrOMEGAs, Pythia and Vevacious (C++). In this paper we describe the features, methods, usage, pathways, assumptions and current limitations of GUM. We also give a fully worked example, consisting of the addition of a Majorana fermion simplified dark matter model with a scalar mediator to GAMBIT via GUM, and carry out a corresponding fit.
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- Camargo-Molina, José Eliel, et al.
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A new perspective on the electroweak phase transition in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
- 2021
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - : Springer Nature. - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; 2021
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A first-order Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT) could explain the observed baryon-antibaryon asymmetry and have a detectable gravitational wave signature, but this is not possible in the Standard Model. We therefore study the EWPT in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) including dimension-six operators. A first-order EWPT has previously been shown to be possible in the SMEFT in scenarios with a tree-level barrier between minima, which requires a negative Higgs quartic coupling and a new physics scale low enough to raise questions about the validity of the EFT approach. In this work we show that a first-order EWPT is possible in a novel scenario where the barrier between minima is generated radiatively, the quartic coupling is positive, the scale of new physics is higher, and there is good agreement with experimental bounds. Our calculation is done in a consistent, gauge-invariant way, and we carefully analyze the scaling of parameters necessary to generate a barrier in the potential. We perform a global fit in the relevant parameter space and explicitly find the points with a first-order transition that agree with experimental data. We also briefly discuss the prospects for probing the allowed parameter space using di-Higgs production in colliders.
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